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Alrcadv  issued  or  in  preparation  : 

[Some  i>f  thes^e  foiitributions  are  out  of  print.] 

Volume  I Nos.  i  to  20. 

Volume  II Nos.  21  10  37. 

Volume  III Nos.  38  to  51. 

Volume  IV Nos.  52  to  58. 

Volume  V. 

59.  George  H.   Palmer.      A  Herbert  Bibliography. 

60.  Alfred  C.  Potter  and  Edgar  H.  Wells.     Notes  on  the  Library  of 

Harvard  University. 


PR  \i  I- AC  1 


THIS  collection  of  books  rclatinj^  to  George  Herbert,  whose  name  I  bear 
and  whoso  inemor}-  I  would  honor,  comprises  141  titles  and  158  \olumcs. 
it  is  the  result  of  many  years  of  search  and  is  probably  now  unique  in  extent. 
Indeed  the  lists  here  given  may  be  regarded  as  forming  a  complete  Herbert 
Hibliograph)-.  All  the  books  arc  first  editions  unless  otherwise  specified.  For 
convenience  of  reference  they  arc  grouped  under  nine  headings. 

In  Group  I  are  placed  the  biographies  of  Herbert,  the  exquisite  one  by 
Walton  appearing  in  both  its  forms  and  in  copies  of  much  beauty  and  associational 
interest. 

Grou[)  II  IS  made  up  of  manuscripts,  the  important  ones  being  a  cop)-  of 
the  manuscript  of  all  Herbert's  poems,  at  present  in  the  Bodleian  Librar\ , 
Oxford,  and  a  copy  of  the  less  known  but  highly  instructive  manuscript  of  his 
early  poems,  from  the  Williams  Library,  London. 

During  Herbert's  life  only  a  few  small  pieces  of  his,  all  in  Latin,  were 
published,  and  no  collection  of  his  works  was  made  for  two  hundred  jears 
after  his  death.  But  apart  from  "  The  Temple,"  his  chief  poetic  work,  writings 
of  his,  of  more  or  less  length  and  more  or  less  authenticit}',  appear  in  fifteen 
volumes,  which  form  Group  III  of  this  Collection. 

Group  IV  consists  of  a  complete  set  of  the  fourteen  editions  of  "The 
Temple."  which  appeared  during  the  centur}-  after  Herbert  died.  But  I  do  not 
possess  one  of  the  three  or  four  tmdatcd  copies  which  were  probabl)'  printed  at 
the  time  of  the  first  edition,  in  1633. 

Modern  editions  of  "The  Temple"  are  placed  together  in  Group  \',  but 
no  attempt  has  been  made  to  gather  liere  ever)'  reprint  of  Herbert's  poems, 
only  those  being  collected  which  have  some  point  of  distinction  ;  /.  i\,  in  date, 
notes,  introduction,  or  st)le  of  publication. 

The  Collection,  however,  is  not  confined  to  a  single  one  of  the  seven  Her- 
bert brothers,  but  represents  all  of  them  who  wrote.  The  works  of  the  eUlest, 
lulward,  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury,  number  nine,  besides  translations  of  two 
Latin  pieces.  All  these  will  be  found  in  the  sixth  Gri>np,  together  with  an 
anti-puritan  poetical  tract  by  Thomas  Herbert,  a  stanz.i  of  Latin  verso  by 
Charles  Herbert,  and  a  i)rcface,  b)'  Hem}'  Herbert,  ti>  a  volume  cf  his  brother 
Edward's  poems.  I  have  be<  u  fortunate,  too,  in  obtaining  autogiaphs  of  llio 
brothers.  That  of  Lcjrd  Heibert,  inserted  in  the  Strawberi)-  Hill  Iiditii  11  of  his 
lAutobiography,  is  signed  to  a  receipt  for  a  pension  granted  him  by  Parliament 
rn  return  for  permission  to  destroy  his  ancestral  Castlo  of  MiMitgomcr}'.     That  of 


IV  PREFACE 

Henry  is  inscribed  on  the  fl)-lcaf  of  a  cop\'  of  King  James's  Works,  which  once  " 
belonged  to  Lady  Herbert  and  was  sent  to  her  son  by  her  husband,  Sir  John 
Danvers,  on  the  occasion  of  his  second  marriage.  That  of  George  is  appended 
to  a  four-line  Latin  epigram  in  his  handwriting  ^\hich  the  publisher,  William 
Pickering,  pasted  into  his  copy  of  Walton's  Life  of  Herbert.  This  he  afterwards 
printed  in  his  edition  of  Herbert's  works,  and  the  autograph  given  there  in 
facsimile  is  copied   from  the  one  in  this  Collection. 

Herbert's  spiritual  brother  was  Nicholas  Ferrar,  the  head  of  the  semi- 
monastic  house  of  Little  Gidding.  I  liave  accordingly  formed  a  Group  (VH) 
of  the  books  relating  to  him.  And  since  J.  H.  Shorthouse,  in  "John  Inglesant," 
has  done  much  toward  making  known  the  usages  of  this  pious  household,  I 
am  glad  to  add  to  these  books  relating  to  Little  Gidding  several  which  bear  his 
book-plate  and  autograph. 

I  have  felt,  too,  that  the  Collection  should  contain  whatever  books  might, 
incidentally  throw  light  on  the  scenery  and  events  of  Herbert's  life,  on  his 
scholarly  and  political  associates,  and  on  the  sources  from  which  he  derived 
literary  material.  All  books  of  this  illustrative  and  miscellaneous  nature  are 
placed  together  in  Group  VHI,  a  note  being  added  to  each  to  indicate  its 
connection  with  Herbert. 

But  since,  unhappily,  a  collection  can  never  be  complete,  I  mention  in  a 
final  Group   four  books  which  the  watchfid   pursuit  of  many  years  has  not  yet  ; 
brought   me.       May  some   reader   of   this   Bibliography  know  where   they  are  \ 
hiding  and   bless   me  by  disclosing  them  ! 

GEORGE    HERBERT   PALMER. 
Harvard  University,  December  6,  1910. 


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Lives  of  George  Herbert 

I.  The  Life  I  Of  I  Mr.  George  Herbert.] 
Written  by  Izaack  Walton.  |  To  which  are 
added  some  |  Letters  |  Written  by  |  Mr.  George 
Herbert,  at  his  being  in  |  Cambridge  :  with 
others  to  his  Mother,  |  the  Lady  Magdalen 
Herbert :  Written  |  by  John  Donne,  after- 
wards Dean  of  St.  ]  Pauls.  |  Wisdom  of  Solom. 
4.  10. 1  He  ])leased  God,  and  was  beloved  of 
him  :  |  so  that  whereas  he  lived  among  sin- 
ners, I  he  translated  him.  |  London,  |  Printed 
by  Tho  :  Newcomb,  for  Rich  :  Marriott,  |  Sold 
by  most  Booksellers.     M.DC.LXX. 

16°,  dark  green  morocco.  Collation:  Portrait  by 
R.  White,  in  oval,  and  beneath.  The  Effigies  of  Mr: 
George  Herbert;  |  Author  of  those  Sacred  Poems  called 
|TheTemple.;  title;  verso,  Imprimatur;  thenasecond 
title  page  — 

The  I  Life  |  Of  |  Mr.  George  Herbert.  |  Written  |  By 
Izaack  Walton.  |  Wisdom  of  Solom.  4.  10.  |  He  pleased 
God,  and  was  Ijeloved  of  |  him :  so  that  whereas  he 
lived  among  |  sinners,  he  translated  him.  |  London,  | 
Printed  by  Tlio:  Newcomb,  for  Richard  |  Marriott, 
Isold  by  most  Book- (  sellers.  M.DC.LXX;  verso. 
Imprimatur,  A  i ;  Commendatory  verses  by  Sam : 
\Voodforde,  pp.  5-9;  The  Introduction,  pji.  10-12; 
The  Life,  pp.  13-119;  verso  blank;  then  a  new  title 
page  — 

Letters  |  Written  by  |  Mr.  George  Herbert,  |  At  his 
being  in  |  Cambridge:  With  others  to  his  Mother,  the 
Lady  |  Magdalen  Herbert.  |  Written  by  |  John  Donne,  | 
Afterwards  |  Dean  of  St.  Pauls,  i  London,  |  Printed  by 
Tho:  Newcomb,  for  Richard  |  Marriott,  Sold  by  most 
Book- 1  sellers.  M.DC.LXX;  verso  blank;  Letters,  pp. 
123-146;  Verses  by  Crashaw  on  two  unnumbered 
pages,  K  2;  at  the  end,  Books  Sold  by  Dorman  New- 
man, A  1-A8. 

,*^With  book-plate  of  Wm.  Pickering.  On  the 
last  leaf  are  pencilled  some  lines  by  Herbert  and  under- 
neath is  written  "All  the  alxive  is  in  the  handwriting 
of  the  late  Mr.  Wm.  Pickering  at  whose  sale  I  pur- 
chased this  volume,  1854.  Wm.  Gotl."  Pasted  on 
a  ''y-leaf  are  two  Latin  epigrams  written  in  a  seven- 
teenth century  hand,  one  of  them  bearing  tlij  signa- 
ture, Geor.  Herbert.  Pickering  believed  them  to  be 
Herbert's  handwriting.  He  published  them  in  1844, 
and  iney  have  ever  since  been  printed  in  collections 
of  Herbert's  Latin  poems  as  the  final  two.  The 
second,  a  couplet,  has  lately  been  shown  to  be  copied 
from  Martial. 


2.  The  Life  I  Of  |  Mr.  George  Herbert.] 

Wisdom  of  Salom.  4.  10.  |  He  pleased  God, 

and  was  beloved  of  him  :  so  |  that  whereas  he 

lived  among  sinners,  he  tran- 1  slated  him.  | 

London,  |  Printed    by   Tho  :    Newcomb,   for 

Richard  Marriott,  |  sold  by  most  Booksellers. 

>L1)C.LXX. 

8°,  half  olive  morocco.  Pages  1-104  (last  leaf  in 
manuscript),  A  i-G  4. 

***  Apparently  a  separate  issue  from  Walton's 
Lives. 

3.  The  I  Lives  |  Of  |  Dr.  John  Donne,  |  Sir 
Henry  Wotton,  |  Mr.  Richard  Hooker,  |  Mr. 
George  Herbert.  |  AVritten  by  Izaak  Walton. 
I  To  which  are  added  some  Letters  written  by 
Mr.  George  Herbert,  at  his  being  in  Cam- 
bridge :  with  others  to  his  Mother,  the  |  Lady 
^L'lgdalen  Herbert,  written  by  John  |  Donne, 
afterwards  Dean  of  St.  Pauls.  |  Eccles.  44.  7.  | 
These  were  honourable  men  in  their  Genera- 
tions. I  London,  |  Printed  by  Tho.  Newcomb 
for  Richard  Marriott.  |  Sold  by  most  Book- 
sellers.    1670. 

8°,  in  the  original  calf  binding.  Collation :  Portrait 
of  Donne  by  Lombart;  title;  verso  blank;  Epistle 
Dedicatory,  A  3-4;  To  the  Reader,  A  5-7;  verso, 
Errata;  Letter  from  the  Bishop  of  Chichester,  B  I-4; 
Life  of  Donne,  B  5-Ci  i,  pp.  9-81 ;  verses  on  Donne 
by  the  Bishop  of  Oxford,  Bishop  of  Chichester,  and 
Iz:  Woe.  (sic),  G  I  verso-4,  pp.  82-S8.  (In  both 
this  copy  and  the  Harvard  College  Library  copy  the 
"  DC  "  of  the  signature  "  Iz:  Woe."  has  been  jiltered 
to  "  a,"  in  a  contemporary  hand.) 

Portrait  of  Wotton  by  Dolle;  title.  The  |  Life  |  Of  | 
Sr  Henry  Wotton,  |  Sometime  |  Provost  of  Eaton  Col- 
Icdge.  I  There  are  them  that  have  left  a  name  t^ehinde 
them;  so  that  |  their  praise  shall  be  spoken  of :  Ecclus. 
44.  8. 1  London,  Printed  by  Thomas  Newcomb,  for 
Richard  Marriot,  |  and  sold  by  most  Booksellers.  1670: 
Life  of  Wotton,  B  2-K3,  pp.  3-77;  An  Elegie  by  A. 
Cowley,  F  3  verso-4;   verso  blank. 

Portrait  of  Hooker  by  Dolle:  title,  The  Life  I  Of 
Mr.  Rich.  Hooker,  |  The  |  .Author  of  those  Learned 
Books  I  Of  the  I  Laws  of  Ecclesiastical  Polity.  |  Psal. 
145.  4. 1  One  generation  shall  praise  thy  works  to 
another.  |  Prov.  2.  15.  |  The  tongue  of  the  wise  useth 
knowledge  rightly.  |  London,  |  Printed  by  Tho:  New- 
comb, for  Rich:  ^Iar^iot,  |  sold  by  most  Booksellers. 
M.DC.LX.X;  verso  blank;  Commendatory  verses  by 
Sam:  Woodford,  A  2-3;  Life  of  Hooker,  A4-H8, 
pp.  7-140- 


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Portrait  of  Herbert  by  White;  title,  The  Life  |  Of  | 
Mr.  George  Herbert.  Wisdom  of  Saloni.  4.  10.  |  He 
pleased  God,  ami  was  beloved  of  him  :  so  j  that  whereas 
he  lived  among  sinners,  he  tran- 1  slated  him.  |  London,] 
Printed  by  Tho :  Newcomb,  for  Kichard  Marriott,  Isold 
by  most  Booksellers.  M.DC.LXX;  verso.  Imprima- 
tur; Commendatory  verses  by  Sam  :  Woodforde,  A  2- 
3;    Life  of  Herbert,  A  3  verso-F  i,  pp.  6-S2. 

Title,  Letters  I  Written  By  I  Mr.  George  Herbert,! 
At  his  being  in  |  Cambridge :  |  With  others  to  his 
Mother,  the  Lady  |  Magdalen  I  lerbert :  |  Written  By  | 
John  Donne,  |  Afterwards  |  Dean  of  St.  Pauls.  |  Lon- 
don, |  Printed  by  Tho:  Newcomb,  for  Richard  Mar- 
riott, |  Sold  by  most  Booksellers.  M.DC.LXX;  verso 
blank;  Letters,  K  3-G  4,  pp.  85-103;  verso.  On  Mr 
George  Herbert's  Book,  p.  104. 

,*,In  this  copy  above  the  portrait  of  Donne  is 
written  "For  Mr  Richard  Baylie,  Iz:  Wa:"  and  there 
are  several  corrections  of  the  text  in  a  similar  hand. 

4.  The  I  Lives  |  Of  |  Dr.  John  Donne,  |  Sir 
Henry  Wotton,  |  Mr.  Richard  Hooker,  |  Mr. 
George  Herbert.  |  Written  by  Izaak  Walton.  | 
The  Fourth  Edition.  |  Eccles.  xi.iv.  7.  [  These 
were  Honourable  Men  in  their  Generations.  ! 
London,  |  Printed  by  Tho.  Roycroft  for 
Richard  Marriot.  |  Sold  by  most  Booksellers. 

1675- 

8°,  calf.     A2-Aa4,  pp.  (14),  348. 

^*^  Lacks  the  portrait  of  Donne,  but  has  the  other 
three,  and  all  four  title  pages. 

5.  Walton's  Lives,  .  .  .  With  Notes  and 
Illustrations.  A  new  edition,  revised  by 
A.  H.  Bullen.  With  a  Memoir  of  Izaak  Wal- 
ton by  William  Dowling.  London,  George 
Bell  &  Sons.     1884. 

8°,  half  calf,  pp.  xlii,  424. 
,»,The  best  small  modern  edition. 

6.  The  Life  of  George  Herbert  of  Bemer- 
ton,  by  John  J.  Daniell.  New  Edition,  with 
Addenda  and  Illustrations.  London,  Society 
for  Promoting  Christian  Knowledge.     1902. 

8',  cloth,  pp.  348. 

,*,The  first  attempt  since  Walton's  to  write  a  life 
of  Herbert  with  fresh  investigation  of  the  sources. 
\'aluable,  but  much  biased  by  religious  considerations. 

7.  George  Herbert  and  his  times,  by 
A.  G.  Hyde,  with  thirty-two  illustrations. 
New  York,  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  London, 
Methuen  &  Co.      1906. 

8°,  pp.  xiv,  327. 

^*,  Entertaining,  but  with  little  new  material,  ex- 
cept in  the  abundant  and  excellent  illustrations. 

8.  George  Herbert,  Melodist,  by  E.  S. 
Buchanan.     London,  Eliot  Stock.      19 10. 

Sm.  4^,  pp.  76. 

,♦,  An  uninstructed  bit  of  enthusiasm. 


II 

Mam-scripts 

1.  The  Original  of  Mr.  George  Herbert's 
Temple,  as  it  was  at  first  Licensed  for  the 
Presse  (Tanner  MS.  307,  Bodleian  Library, 
Oxford).  Copied  for  me  with  minute  accuracy 
by  Miss  A.  F.  Parker. 

FoHo,  half  morocro,  pp.  232  -f  6. 

,*♦  Possibly  the  Bodleian  manuscript  is  the  one 
from  which  Ferrar  printed  his  original  text  in  1633, 
with  which  text  u  very  closely  agrees. 

2.  A  manuscript  of  seventy-three  of  Her- 
bert's English  poems  and  of  two  sets  of  his 
I^tin  poems — Passio  Discerpta  and  Lucus — 
now  in  the  Williams  Library,  Gordon  Square, 
London  (Jones  ms.  B,  62).  Copied  for  me 
in  1899  by  Miss  E.  M.  Thompson. 

4°,  cloth,  pp.  202. 

^*»  The  Williams  manuscript  was  probably  drawn 
up  about  1629,  since  it  contains  only  those  poems 
which  Herbert  had  written  before  he  took  orders.  Its 
text  differs  widely  from  that  of  1633. 

3.  George  Herbert's  Temple  Explained 
and  Improved,  by  George  Ryley,  17 14. 
(Rawlinson  ms.  D,  190,  Bodleian  Library, 
Oxford.)  Copied  for  me  in  1904  by  Miss 
A.  F.  Parker. 

Folio,  half  morocco,  pp.  392. 

,*^  An  unprinted  manuscript  of  comment,  chiefly 
religious  and  hortatory,  on  each  one  of  Herbert's 
poems. 

4.  A  note-book  used  by  me  in  the  pre- 
paration of  my  edition  of  Herbert's  Poems. 

4^,  buckram,  pp.  424. 

Ill 

George  Herbert's  Writings,  other  than 
The  Temple 

1.  Epicedium  |  Cantabrigiense,  |  In  obitum 
immaturum,  Semperq;  deflen-|dum,  Henrici, 
Illustrissimi  Principis  |  Walliae,  &c.  |  Canta- 
brigian, I  Ex  officina  Cantrelli  Legge.  |  16 12. 


Collation :  Title;   verso 
C.  P.,  A  2;    Text, 


Sm.  4°,  full  polished  calf 
blank;    Latin  preface  signed  V 
A  3-P2,  pp.  I-112. 

^•^.On  pp.  65-67  of  this  collection  of  Laments  for 
Prince  Henry  are  two  Latin  poems  by  George  Herbert, 
the  first  of  his  writings  which  ever  appeared  in  print. 
In  the  year  of  taking  his  Bachelor's  Degree,  when  but 
nineteen  years  of  age,  he  joined  the  other  brilliant 
men  of  his  University,  and  especially  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege, in  mourning  for  a  popular  prince. 

2.  Lacrymae  j  Cantabrigi- 1  enses  :  |  In  obi- 
tum Serenissimse  Reginae  |  Annse,  |  Conjugis 
dilectissimae   |   Jacobi   |    Magnae     Britannise, 


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Sill.  4"",  full  polished  calf.  <  Dllaliiiii : 
blank;  I'roloijiis  signed  1.  (i.  1'.;  scrso 
A  1-L4,  pp.  1-S7;    verso  blank. 

.^•»  Herbert,  already  a  teacher  of  liietoric  at  Trinity 
and  this  year  appointeil  Orator  of  the  University, 
contributed  ten  lines  of  Latin  verse  to  this  volume  of 
("anibritlge  Klegies  on  the  (^)ueen  of  King  James. 

3.  Oratio  |  Qua  auspicatissiiiumi  Serenis- 
simi  I  Principis  |  Caroli,  |  Rtditiim  ex  Hispa- 
niis  celebravit  |  (ieorgius  Herbert  |  Academia; 
Cantabrigiensis  I  Orator.  Ex  Officina  Can- 
trelli  Legge,  Alina.^  [  Matris  Cantabrigian  Typo- 
graphi.  |  1623. 

Sm.  4",  brown  straight  grained  morocco.     Colla- 


li\  ()tili(ii)a  I'anls,  I  I.dikI.  i.July  if*::-.  Together  with 
other  (online-  moratioiii  nf  lier,  I>y  her 
Sonne  (i.  Herliert.,  London,  I'rinted  by  I.  H. 
for  Philemon  |  Stejjhens,  and  Christopher 
Mere-  |  dith,  and  are  to  be  sold  at  tlieir  shop 


tion :   Title;    verso  blank;    text,  •' 
verso  blank. 


2-"    3.  pp-  •-'•; 


.•^This  address  on  the  return  of  Prince  Charles 
from  his  unsuccessful  wooing  in  Spain,  on  account  of 
its  outspoken  opposition  to  the  Spanish  match  is 
thought  by  S.  K.  Gardiner  to  have  lost  Herbert  his 
chance  of  promotion  to  an  assistant  secretaryship  of 
state.      It  is  his  first  piece  of  published  prose. 

With  the  above  Ls  bound  a  collection  of  poems  to 
which  Herbert  did  not  contribute  —  Gratulatio  )  Aca- 
deniix  I  Cantabrigiensis  |  De  Serenissimi  Principis  reditu 
tx  I  Hispaniis  exoptatissimo  :  |  Quam  Augustissimo  Regi 
I  Jacobo,  I  Celsissimoq;  Principi  |  Carolo  |  Ardentissimi 
sui  voti  testimonium  |  esse  voluit.  |  Ex  Officina  Cantrelli 
Legge,  Almte  Matris  Cantabrigia;  'Pypographi.  |  1623. 
Collation:  Title;  verso  blank;  Ad  Regeni;  verso, 
Ad  Principem;   text,  A  1-G4,  pp.  1-53;   verso  blank. 

4.  Memori?e   |   Honoratissinii  |   Domini  | 

Francisci,  |  Baronis    De  |  Verulamio,  |  Vice- 

Comitis|Sancti  Albani  |  Sacrum.  |  Londini  |  In 

Officina  Johannis  Haviland.  |  1626. 

Sm.  4°,  polished  calf.  Collation:  Title;  \ejf.o 
blank;  Preface  signed  G.  Rawley,  A  2;  text,  A  3- 
E  I,  pp.  1-30. 

<,*,  A  collection  of  Latin  poems  in  memory  of  Lord 
Bacon,  to  which  Herl)ert  contributed  one  of  six  lines 
on  p.  2.  Bacon  died  this  year.  In  the  preceding 
year  he  had  dedicated  to  Herbert  his  Translation  of 
Certain  Psalms. 

5.  A  Translation  of  |  Thirty-Two  Latin 
Poems  1  In  Honor  Of  |  Francis  Bacon  |  Pub- 
lished by  Rawley  |  In  1626  |  Boston  |  Privately 
Printed  |  1904. 

4^,  large  paper,  half  cloth.  Collation:  Half  title; 
verso  blank;  title-page;  verso  blank;  Preface  signed 
E.  K.  Rand,  pp.  5-6;  Manes  \'erulamiani,  p.  7; 
text  (Latin  and  English  on  opposite  pages,  with  notes 
at  bottom),  pp.  8-88. 

,*»  A  translation  of  the  preceding  volume. 

6.  A  I  Sermon  ]  Of  |  Commemo-  j  ration  Of 
The  I  Lady  Diivers,  late  Wife  |  of  Sr.  John 
Davers.  |  Preach'd  at  (!hilsey,  where  |  she  was 
lately   buried.  I  Bv  I  lohn    Donne    D.   of    St. 


at  the  golden   I. ion  in  Pauls    Church-yard. 
1627. 

■  2',  black  straight  grained  morocco.  Collation: 
Title;  verso  blank;  The  Prayer  Before  the  Sermon. 
.•K  2-6,  unnumbered;  the  Sermon.  A7-II7,  pp.  1 
170;  one  leaf  blank,  followed  by  llerl)erfs  Latin  and 
Greek  poems,  .Memoriae  .Matris  -Sacrum.  II9-I5, 
pp.  I-17;    verso  blank. 

,*,  In  1627,  the  year  "f  his  mother's  death,  Hcr- 
Ix-rt  resigned  the  Oratorship  and  went  into  retirement 
for  three  years. 

In  1630  Herbert  lf)ok  jiriest's  firders  and  accepted 
the  small  living  of  I'uggleston  cum  Bemerton,  adjoin- 
ing the  estate  of  Wilton  House,  the  seat  of  his  kins- 
man, the  Ear!  of  Pembroke,  in  Wiltshire.  Here  he 
died  three  years  later,  sending  to  his  friend,  Nicholas 
l-'errar,  from  his  death-bed  the  manuscript  of  a  volume 
of  poems  which  Ferrar  published  in  the  same  year 
under  the  title  of  The  Temple.  For  the  editions  of 
this  book  see  sections  IV  and  \'.  No  piece  of  Her- 
bert's English  writing,  prose  or  verse,  was  printed 
during  his  life. 

7.  Hygiasticon  :  |  Or,  |  The  right  course  of 
I  ])reserving  Life  and  |  Health  unto  extreani  | 
old  Age  :  |  Together  with  soundnesse  and 
integritie  of  the  |  Senses,  Judgement,  and 
Memorie.  ]  Written  in  Latine  by  |  Leonard 
Lessius,  I  And  now  done  into  |  English.  |  The 
second  Edition.  |  Printed  by  the  Printers  |  to 
the  Universitie  of  |  Cambridge.      1634. 

12",  original  calf.  Collation:  Title;  verso,  The 
things  contained  in  this  following  Book;  To  the 
Reader,  "^  3-7;  Extract  from  Lord  Bacon,  T  8; 
Poem,  To  the  Reader  by  R.  Crawshaw,  T  9;  other 
poems,  IT  10-12;  The  Authours  Epistle  Dedicatorie, 
A-A6;  Approbations  by  Joannes  Walterius  \'iringus, 
Gerard  de  Vileers,  I'ran.  Sassen,  A  6  verso-8;  verso 
blank;  Text,  A9-K5,  pp.  I-210;  A  Treatise  of 
Temperance  and  Sobrietie,  written  by  Lud.  Cornariis. 
Translated  into  Ent^lish  by  Mr.  George  Herbert,  K6- 
M  4,  pp.  1-46;  A  Discourse  Translated  Out  of  Italian, 
That  a  Spare  Diet  is  better  than  a  Splendid  and 
Sumptuous.     A  Paradox,  M  5-N  4,  pp.  47-70. 

,*^The  Preface  of  the  Publisher  of  this  book  is 
signed  T.  S.  The  translator  of  the  first  and  third 
])ieces  has  been  thought  to  be  Nicholas  Ferrar.  The 
author  of  the  third  is  unknov\n.  Lessius,  who  wrote 
the  first,  was  a  professor  of  divinity  at  Louvain. 
Ludovico  Cornaro,  who  wrote  four  treatises  on  the 
sol)er  life  l>etween  his  eighty-third  and  ninety-fifth 
year,  was  a  N'enetian  noble.  It  is  the  first  of  these 
treatises,  published  in  155S,  which  Herbert  translates, 
or  freely  rewrites,  as  the  second  piece  of  this  volume. 
Probably  the  work  was  done  at  Bemerton  in  Herberfs 
last  years. 

This  second  edition  was  printed  in  the  same  year  as 
the  first.  I  know  of  no  copy  of  the  first  edition,  the 
British  Museum  having  only  the  second. 

8.  Hygiasticon.  .  .  .  The  third  Edition. 
Cambridge.      1636. 


4 


A    llLRHKKl    miJLUKlKAPIIV 


12^,  calf,  pp.  210  +  70  +  (3).  Siiiiie  ,,>//ii/ioii  iis 
frtWi/iii:^  e.Vii/'t  t'lttf  lUl'if  ritif  is  The  Contents  of  all 
the  Chapters  in  Lessius  his  llygiasticon,  3  pp.,  un- 
numbered. 

9.  The  I  Temperate  Man,  |  Or  The  |  Right 
Way  of  Preserving  I  Life  and  Health,  | 'I'o- 
gether  j  \\'ith  Souiulness  of  the  Senses,  Jiidg-  | 
ment,  ami  Memory  unto  extream  |  Old  Age. 
I  In  Three  Treatises.  |  The  First  written  by 
the  Learned  Leonardus]  Lessitis.]  The  Second 
by  Lodowick  Cornaro,  a  Noble  |  (lentleman 
of  Venice,  |  The  Third  by  a  Famous  Italian.  | 
Faithfully  Englished.  |  London,  |  Printed  by 
J.  R.  for  John  Starkey,  at  |  the  Miter  in  Fleet- 
street,  near  Temple  |  Bar.     1678. 

12°,  calf,  pp.  168.  Collation:  Advertisement,  A  i 
verso;  title;  verso,  The  things  contained  in  this  fol- 
lowing Book,  A  2  verso;  To  the  Reader,  A  3-5;  Ex- 
tract from  Lord  Bacon,  A  6;  Poem,  To  the  Reader,  by 
R.  Crashaw,  A  7;  other  poems,  A  8-1 1 ;  verso  blank; 
The  Authors  Epistle  Dedicatory,  Ai2-a3;  verso 
blank;  Approbation  by  Joannes  Walterius  \'iringus, 
Cerard  de  \'ileers,  and  Francis  Sassen,  34-5;  verso 
blank;  The  Contents  of  all  the  Chapters  in  Lessius 
his  llygiasticon,  a6;  text,  Bi-ti5,  pp.  1-129;  A 
Treatise  of  Temperance  antl  Sobriety.  Written  in 
Italian  by  Lud.  Cornams.  Translated  into  English 
by  Mr.  (jeorge  Herbert,  G  5  verso-Il  6,  pp.  130-156; 
A  Discourse  Translated  out  of  Italian,  That  a  Spare 
Diet  is  better  than  a  Splendid  and  Sumptuous.  A 
Paradox,  H  7-12,  pp.  157-168. 

^*^This  is  the  Hygiasticon  with  a  new  title,  which 
was  subsequently  always  used. 

10.  Sure  I  Methods  |  Of  Attaining  A  |  Long 
and  Healthful  Life.  ]  ^V^itten  originally  in 
Italian,  |  By  |  Lewis  Cornaro,  |  A  noble  Vene- 
tian, when  near  |  an  hundred  Years  old, 
Translated  into  lOnglish  by  W.  Jones  A.B 
Edinburgh  :  |  Printed  by  A.  Donaldson,  anc 
sold  at  his  |  shops  in  London  and  Edinburgh. 
IMDCCLXVHL 

16°,  original  calf,  pp.  (8),  147. 

,*^The  first  edition  of  one  of  the  earliest  and  best 
translations  of  Cornaro  other  than  Herbert's. 

1 1.  The  I  Immortal  Mentor :  |  Or,  |  Man's 
Unerring  Ouide  |To  A  |  Healthy,  Wealthy  And 
I  Happy  Life.  |  In  three  Parts.  |  By  |  Lewis 
Cornaro,  Dr.  Franklin,  and  |  Dr.  Scott.  |  .  .  . 
Philadelphia  :  |  Printed  for  the  Rev.  Mason 
L.  Weems,  |  By  Francis  and  Robert  Bailey,  | 
No.  116,  High  Street.  I  1796. 

12^,  original  sheep,  pp.  (2),  iv,  321. 

,*,The  first  American  appearance  of  Comaro's 
treatise.  Into  this  copy  is  pasted  a  printed  recom- 
mendation of  the  l)Ook  by  (jencral  Washington. 

I  2.  The  -Art  of  |  Living  Ix)ng  |  A  New  and 
Improved  English  \'ersion  |  of  the  Treatise 
of  the  I  Celebrated  \'eneti;in  Centenarian] 
Louis     Cornaro  |  With     lissays     By  |  Joseph 


.Adtlison,     Lord     Bacon,     and     Sir     William 
Teini)le.   .  .   .  |  Milwaukee  |  \Villiam  F.  Butler 

I '903- 

Large  8°,  cloth,  pp.  214. 

»**  A  recent  translation  of  Cornaro,  with  portraits, 
and  accounts  of  his  family  and  villas. 

13.  Trattato  |  De  La  Vita  Sobria  |  Del 
Magnifico  M.  |  Luigi  Cornaro  |  Nobile  |  \'ini- 
tiano.  I  In  Padova,  appresso  Gratioso  Percha- 
cino  I  M  D  LVHL 

Sm.  4°,  parchment.  Collation:  Title;  verso  blank; 
Al  Reverendiss.  Monsig.  Monsignor  Cornelio  Vescovo 
di  Bitonto  Meritissimo,  A  2-3;  A  4  blank;  text,  B  i- 
113.  fL  1-27- 

,*^  First  edition  of  the  original  treatise  of  Cornaro 
from  which  Herbert  made  his  rendering. 

14.  The  Hundred  And  Ten  |  Considera- 
tions I  Of  Signior  |  John  Valdesso  :  |  Treating 
of  Those  j  things  which  are  most  profitable, 
most  I  necessary,  and  most  perfect  in  our 
I  Christian  Profession.  |  Written  In  Spanish,  | 
Brought  out  of  Italy  by  Vergerius,  and  |  first 
set  forth  in  Italian  at  Basil  by  |  Coelius  Secun- 
dus  Curio,  [  Anno  1550.  |  Afterward  translated 
into  French,  and  Printed  |  at  Lions  1563.  and 
again  at  Paris  1565.  |  And  now  translated  out 
of  the  Italian  |  Copy  into  English,  with  notes. 
Whereunto  is  added  an  Epistle  of  the  Authors, 
I  or  a  Preface  to  his  Divine  Commentary  | 
upon  the  Romans.  |  i.  Cor.  2.  |  Howbeit  we 
speak  wi.sdome  amongst  them  that  are  per- 1 
feet,  yet  not  the  wisdome  of  this  world.  |  Ox- 
ford, I  Printed  by  Leonard  Lichfield,  Printer 
I  to  the  University.     Ann.  Dom.  1638. 

Sm.  4°,  sprinkled  calf.  Collation:  Title;  verso 
blank;  The  Publisher  to  the  Reader,  *2;  Briefe 
Notes,  *  3-**  3 ;  Celio  Secundo  Curione  to  the  reader, 
•*  3  verso-***  2;  A  Table,  ***  2  verso-****  2;  ****3 
blank;  verso,  approval  by  Thom.  Jackson.  Letter  of 
G.  Herbert,  ****4;  text,  Ai-Qq4,  pp.  I-311;  An 
Epistle,  Qq4  verso-Ss  i,  unnumbered;    Errata,  Ss2. 

,*»  Nicholas  Ferrar  translated  this  book  of  Juan 
de  \'aldes  which  Herljert  in  the  last  months  ot  his 
life  annotated.  Ferrar  kept  the  book  unpublished 
four  years  and  died  in  1637.  The  following  year  it 
was  printed. 

15.  Divine  Considerations  ...  by  John 
Valdesso.  [Second  edition.]  Cambridge, 
1646. 

Sm.  8°,  old  calf,  pp.  (22),  437,  (17). 

16.  L)ivine  Considerations  by  John  Val- 
desso. Ix)ndon,  New  York,  John  Lane. 
[1905-] 

.Sm.  8^,  cloth,  pp.  Ix,  457. 

»**A  recent  reprint  of  F'errar's  translation  of 
X'aldes'  bo<)k,\\illi  Herlierfs  Prefatory  Epistle,  but 
without  his  notes. 


A    iii;ki;i:Ki    i;ii;i,i()(.u.\i  ii\ 


17.  Ziento  I  I  )ic7,  ConsulLTazioncs,  .  .  . 
Por  Juan  dc  X'aldc^s.  Ilspana.  Ann 
MDCCCI.Xll. 

8^  half  calf,  ^i.  (4)  +  544  +  20. 

,*^  A  modern  rc|)rint  of  \'al(les'  nianiisrri|)t. 

18.  Wits  I  Rerrcations.  |  Selected  from  the 
finest  Fancies  I  of  Moderne  Muses.  |  London, 
I  Printed  by  R.  H.  for  Humphry  J5lun<len| 
at  the  Castle  in  Corn-hill  1640. 

Sm.  4°,  hound  by  Roger  Payne  in  brown  calf. 
Collation:  The  P'rontespeice  discoveri'd,  Ai  verso; 
engraved  title-page  in  seven  compartments,  Witts | 
Kecreations  |  Selected  from  |  the  finest  Fancies  |  of 
Moderne  Muses.  |  With  |  A  Thousand  |  out  Landisli 
Proverbs  .  .  .,  A2;  verso  blank;  jirinted  title  as 
al»ve,  A3;  verso  blank;  The  Stationer  to  the  Reader, 
A4;  verso  blank;  text  (504  epigrams),  I51-M3; 
verso  blank;  Epitaphs  (126),  Aai-CcS;  title  in 
ornamented  Ixirder  — 

Outlandish  I  Proverl)s,  I  Selected  I  By  Mr.  ().  II.  | 
IvOndon,  I  Printed  i>y  T.  I',  for  Humphrey  |  Blunden; 
at  the  Castle  in  |  Corn-hill.  1640.,  A  i ;  verso  blank; 
text,  (1032  proverbs),  A  2-K  3.  No  pagination 
throughout. 

»f»  Nothing  is  known  about  the  circumstances  of 
the  formation  of  this  collection  of  proverbs.  It  is  not 
mentioned  by  IIerl)ert's  early  biographers,  Walton 
and  Oley,  though  it  is  reprinted  (much  enlarged)  in 
Herbert's  Remains,  a  volume  prefaced  by  Oley.  The 
early  portion  of  the  volume  is  made  up  of  selected 
verse. 

19.  Herbert's  |  Remains.  |  Or,  |  Sundry  | 
Pieces  |  Of  that  sweet  Singer  j  of  the  Temple, 
I  Mr.  George  Herbert,  |  Sometime  |  Orator  of 
the  University  of  Canibridg.  |  Now  exposed 
to  publick  light.  |  London,  |  Printed  for  Tim- 
othy (iarthwait,  |  at  the  little  North  door  of 
Saint  I  Paul's.      1652. 

1 2°,  red  morocco.  Collation :  Title  as  above,  A  i ; 
verso  blank;    second  title  — 

A  Priest  |  To  the  |  Temple,  |  Or,  |  The  Countrey  Par- 
son I  His  I  Character,  |  And  |  Rule  of  Holy  Life.  |  The 
Authour,  I  Mr.  G.  H.  |  London,  |  Printed  l)y  T.  Maxey 
for  T.  Garthwait,  at  the  |  little  North  door  of  St. 
Pauls.  1652.,  A  2;  verso  blank;  The  Authour  To 
The  Reader,  A  3-4;  Table  of  Contents,  A  5-6;  half- 
title,  A  I  Prefatory  View  |  Of  The  |  Life  |  Of  |  Mr.  Geo. 
Herbert,  &c.,  A 6  verso;  text  of  the  Life,  ai-c6 
(unnumbered);  the  previous  two  titles  repeated,  A 
Priest  To  the  Temple,  and  I  lerbert's  Remains,  A  1-2; 
The  Authour  To  The  Reader,  repeated,  A  3-4;  text, 
A  Priest  to  the  Temple,  Bi-H  12,  pp.  1-168;  then 
a  new  title  in  ornamental  Iwrder  — 

Jacula  I  Prudentum.  |  Or  |  Outlandish  |  Proverbs, 
Sentences,  &c.  |  Selected  |  By  Mr.  George  Herl)ert, 
Late  1  Orator  of  the  Universitie  of|  Cambndg.  |  I»n- 
don,  I  Printed  by  T.  Maxey  for  T.  Garthwait,  at  the  | 
little  North  door  of  St.  Paul's.  1651.,  Ai;  verso 
blank;  text,  A2-C12,  pp.  I-70;  The  Authour's 
Prayer  before  .Sermon,  D  1-2;  After  Sermon,  D3; 
letter  to  Ferrar,  D3  verso —  5;  Herbert's  Latin 
verses  to  Bacon  and  Donne,  D  5  verso  —  6;  An 
Addition  of  .\pothegmes  by  Severall  Authours,  D  7- 
12.  D1-12  are  mispaged  171-194.  The  last  page, 
p.  194,  has  the  Imprimatur  .it  the  bottom. 


,',  Tills  is  liie  tir>l  appearniuji-  of  TIi.;  <"'.iii:lr)- 
Parson,  u  liicli  is  li'  re  d.itcil,  in  tin;  prt(ai:e,  1032.  It 
was  pi'ibiiUy  C":iipu-cd  durin-^lhc  three  years*. I  lli-r- 
berls  111-  at  Bemcrton.  Prol)ably  the  entire  volume 
was  editeil  by  Barnaba.s  Oley. 

20.  Lcclcsiastes  |  .Solomonis.  |  .\ii<  lore  | 
Joan.  Vi\  iano.  |  Cantictm)  |  Solomonic  :  |  .\ec 
non  l',i)igrammata  |  Sacra.  [  i'er  J.  .\.  I  )ui>or- 
tum.  I  Acceilunt  (leorgii  Herberti  j  Musje 
Responsorice  ad  |  .\ndre;e  Meh  ini  |  Anli-Tami- 
Cami-('atc'goriam.  |  ('antabrifria-  :j  V.\  OH'k  ina 
Joannis  I'icid,  celeberrim;t:  |  Academiai 'I'ypo- 
graphi.  |  Prostant  venales  a])ud  Rol)ertum 
Nicholson  Bibliopolam.    Anno  Domini.  1663. 

Sm.  8°,  old  panelled  calf.  Collation:  Title; 
verso  blank;    Prrefatio,  '.'  5-7;    second  title  — 

Kcclesiastes:  |  Sive  |  Regis  |  S<jlomonis  |  Sermones  | 
Paraphrasi  Poelica  |  Explicati.  |  Auctore  |  Joanne  \'ivi- 
ano]  \alentiano.  |  Cantabrigia-:  |  Ex  Ofificina  Joannis 
F"ield,  celeberrimce  |  Academi;?  Typographi.  |  Anno 
Dom.  1662.,  A  I ;  verso,  Arnoldo  Mylio  Suo.  S.P.  Dr 
text,  A  2-C  5,  pp.  1-40;    a  new  title  — 

Ei)ilhalamia  |  Sacra,  |  .Seu  |  (^anticum  |  .Solomonis  | 
metrica  Metaphrasi  |  doiiatum.  |  Accedunt  |  Epigram- 
mata  Sacra  |  .Seu  |  Carmina  in  Anniversariis  Ecclesia- 1 
Festis  composita  (  Per  |  J.  D.  Cantabrigiensem.  |Canta- 
brigi.v :  ]  Ex  Olficina  Joannis  Field,  ccleberrimae  |  Aca- 
demire  Typographi.  |  Anno  Dom.  1662.,  C6;  verso 
blank;  dedication,  C7-8;  text,  D  1-8,  pp.  I-15; 
verso  blank;    another  title  — 

Epigrammata  |  Sacra,  |  Seu,  |  Carmina  in  Anniversa- 
riis |  Ecclesi;e  Festis  I  composita,  I  Per  J.  D.  Canta- 
brigiensem. I  Cantabrigia  :  |  Ex  Oliicina  Joannis  Field, 
celeberrimae  |  Academic  Typographi.  |  Anno  Dom. 
1662.,  El;  verso  blank;  text,  E  2-G  3,  pp.  I-36; 
another  title  — 

Georgii  Herberti  |  Angli  |  Mus;ie  Responsorue  (  ad  | 
Andrire  Melvini  |  Scoti  |  Anti-  Tami-  Cami-  |  Catego- 
riam.  |  Cantabrigia :  |  Ex  Ofticina  joannis  Field,  cele- 
berrima  I  Academia  Typographi.  |  Anno  Dom.  1662., 
G4;  verso  blank;  text,  Ci  5-1 4,  pp.  I-30;  verso, 
Errata. 

^*^The  first  publication  of  the  Epigrams  in  reply 
to  Melville's  attack  on  Episcopacy  (VHI,  3,  below). 
Herl)ert  began  to  write  these  epigrams  when  a  l)oy  at 
Westminster  School  and  continued  them  in  his  early 
years  at  Cambridge  University.  In  the  earlier  edi- 
tions of  Duport's  book  they  do  not  appear. 

21.  A  I  Priest  |  To  The  |  Temple.  |  Or  The 
Coinitry  Parson  |  His  |  Character,  |  And  |  Rule 
of  Holy  Life.  |  By  Mr.  (ieorge  Herbert,  Ora- 
tor of  the  I  University  of  Cambridge.  |  The 
second  Edition;  With  a  new  |  Pneface,  by 
B.  O.  I  London,  |  Printed  by  T.  Roycroft,  for 
Benj.  Tooke,  at  |  the  Ship  in  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard. I  167 1. 

Sm.  8*^,  original  calf.  Collation:  Imprimatur,  A  I 
verso;  title,  A  2;  verso  blank;  The  Author  To  the 
Reader,  A  3-4;  verso  blank;  The  Publisher  To  The 
Christian  Reader,  A5-a7;  verso  blank;  The  Con- 
tents, a8;  text,  B1-K6,  pp.  1-130;  verso  bbnk; 
An  Advertisement  to  the  Reader,  K7;  Of  the  Life 
of  Mr.  G.  Herliert,  iS;c.,  K8-06  (unnuiiil>ereil); 
Books  Printed  for  .   .   Benjamin   Took,  O  7. 

,*♦  The  hrst  separate  issue  of  Herbert's  little  treatise 
on  a  Parson '>  duties. 


A    IIKRHPIKT   BIHLI0(;KAI'I1V 


22.  A  Priest  To  The  Temple.  .  .  .  Ihe 
Third  Impression.      1675. 

1  2-,  original  panelled  talf,  rebacked. 

»*^r<nuains  the  same  matter  as  the  1671  edition, 
and  in  the  same  onler:  Imt  the  list  of  books  printed 
for  Benjamin  Took  has  grown  to  eight  pages. 

23.  A  Priest  To  The  Tem])le.  .  .  .  The 
Fourth  Edition.      1701. 

Sni.  8'',  original  panelled  calf. 

24.  C'.eorge  Herbert's  Country  Parson. 
Edited  by  H,  C.  Beeching,  M.A.,  Rector  of 
Tattendon,  Berks.,  Lately  Select  Preacher  at 
Oxford.  Oxford,  B.  H.  Blackwell,  50  &  51 
Broad  Street.  London,  T.  Fisher  Unwin, 
Paternoster  Square.     MDCCCXCVIIL 

12°,  boards,  pp.  lii,  175. 

♦  **  With  Introduction  and  Notes.  By  far  the  l)est 
separate  issue  of  The  Country  Parson. 

25.  Psalms  &  Hymns  |  In  Solemn  Musick 
I  Of  Foure  Parts  |  On  the  Common  Tunes  to 
the  Psalms  in  Metre :  |  Used  in  Parish- 
Churches.  I  Also  Six  Hymns  for  One  Voyce 
to  the  Organ.  |  For  God  is  King  of  all  the 
Earth,  Sing  ye  Praises  with  Understanding. 
Psal.  47.  7.  1  By  John  Playford.  |  Picture  of 
Kin^  David  playing  the  harp  enclosed  within 
a  framemork  of  music.  London,  Printed 
by  W.  Godbid  for  J.  Playford,  at  his  Shop  in 
the  Iimer-Temple.     1671. 

Folio,  parchment.  Collation:  A  Hymn  on  the 
Divine  Use  of  Musick,  jueliminary  leaf,  verso;  title; 
verso  blank;  dedication  to  WiUiam  Sancroft,  ai; 
The  Preface,  ai  verso -2;  Table  of  Tunes,  *  1-2; 
text,  Bi-Cci,  pp.  1-97;  tables  of  first  lines,  Cci 
verso  -2;   advertisements,  C  c  2  verso. 

^*,  In  the  Preface  it  is  stated  that  the  translations 
of  Psalms  marked  G.  H.  "are  supposed  to  be  Mr. 
George  Herberts,"  and  they  have  accordingly  been 
often  included  among  Herbert's  poems.  But  it  is 
highly  improbable  that  he  wrote  them. 

26.  Miscellanea  Sacra  :  |  Or,  |  Poems  |  On  | 
Divine  &  Moral  |  Subjects,  j  Collected  by 
N.Tate,  Servant  to  His  |  Majesty  |  The  sec- 
ond Edition,  with  Additions  of  |  several  Poems 
and  Meditations  in  |  Prose.  |  London  :  |  Printed 
for  Hen.  Playford  in  the  Temple-Change,  |  in 
Fleet-Street.     1698. 

8°,  panelled  calf,  pp.  (24)  -|-  140  +  (6)  +  12. 

**,  Here  on  p.  51  appears  for  the  first  time  "The 
Convert,  An  Ode  Written  by  Mr.  (ieorge  Herljert." 
But  as  Tate  gives  no  reasons  for  supposing  the  poem 
CO  be  by  Herbert,  and  the  style  is  unlike  his,  it  nmst 
be  reckoned  at  least  doubtful. 

27.  (Original  Letters  From  Richard  Baxter, 
\jind  others']^.     \Vith    P.iograjjhical    Illustra- 


tions.    Edited    By   Rebecca   Warner.      Lon- 
don, Longman.      1 8 1  7. 

Large  8°,  pp.  viii,  303. 

^*^The  first  of  a  series  of  three  volumes  of  hitherto 
unpublished  letters  of  the  Herbert  family. 

28.  Epistolary  Curiosities  ;  Series  The 
First  :  Consisting  Of  Unpublished  Letters,  Of 
the  Seventeenth  Century,  Illustrative  of  the 
Herbert  Family,  etc.  Edited  By  Rebecca 
Warner.     London,  Longman,  1818. 

Large  8°,  pp.  viii,  214. 

»*^In  this  volume  appear  for  the  first  time  four 
letters  of  George  Herbert  and  many  from  Edward 
and  Henry  Herbert. 

29.  Epistolary  Curiosities;  Series  The 
Second  And  Last :  Consisting  Of  Unpublished 
Letters,  Of  the  Eighteenth  Century,  Illustra- 
tive of  the  Herbert  Family,  etc.  Edited  By 
Rebecca  Warner.    London,  Longman.    1818. 

Large  8°,  pp.  x,  240. 

^**  All  the  letters  in  this  volume  are  of  generations 
later  than  (}eorge  Herbert. 


IV 

Editions  of  'Lhe  Temple  published  durino 

THE  First  Century  after  Herbert's 

Death 

I .  The  I  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems  j  And  Pri- 
vate Eja- 1  culations.  |  By  Mr.  George  Her- 
bert. I  Psal.  29. 1  In  his  Temple  doth  every  | 
man  speak  of  his  honour. |Cambridge  :|Printed 
by  Thorn.  Buck,  |  and  Roger  Daniel,  printers 
I  to  the  Universitie.  |  1633. 

12"^,  green  morocco.  First  Edition.  Collation: 
Title  in  ornamented  border,  If  i ;  verso  blank;  The 
Printers  to  the  Reader,  112-113;  verso  blank;  The 
Dedication,  If  4;  verso  blank;  text,  ending  with 
"  L'Envoy,"  A  i-H  12,  pp.  1-192;  The  titles  of  the 
several  poems,  etc.,  1 1-2,  unnumbered;    verso  blank. 

^*^  With  autograph  and  book-plate  of  Charles  Eliot 
Norton.  Is  this  the  earliest  edition,  or  was  there  one 
preceding  it  ?  I  believe  this  to  be  the  earliest.  Three 
or  four  undated  copies  are  known,  one  of  them  in  the 
library  of  the  late  Robert  Hoe  of  New  York.  The  text 
of  these  has  not  been  reset  and  is  identical  with  that  of 
the  present  edition.  The  title-page  is  different,  being 
as  follows:  The  |  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems  |  And  I  Pri- 
vate Kja-  I  culations.  |  By  Mr.  George  Herbert,  [late 
Oratour  of  the  Universitie  |  of  Cambridge.  |  Psal.  29.  | 
In  his  Temple  doth  every  |  man  speak  of  his  honour. 
I  Cambridge.  |  Printed  by  Thomas  Buck  |  and  Roger 
Daniel :  |  'f  And  are  to  be  sold  by  Francis  |  Green, 
Stationer  in  |  Cambridge. 

Ik-cause  these  few  copies  bear  no  date,  they  have 
been  thought  to  Ije  trial  copies,  printed  before  the 
regular  issue,  as  gifts  for  friends.  Dr.  Gfosart  states 
that  he  has  seen  1632  written  on  some  of  them.  This 
is  the  only  piece  of  evidence  offered  for  their  early 
date.     But  it  is  much  more  probable  that  they  follow 


A    llLKliLKl    UlJILIUCkAl'IlN 


the  edition  of  1(^33  than  that  thc-y  precede  a.  Tlie 
second  edilion,  al«)  t.f  1633,  repeals  several  jK'culiaii- 
ties  of  tiieir  title-pai^e,  e.  fj.  "late  (Jraioiir  of  ihe  Uni- 
versiiie  of  Canihridi^e."  and  "And  are  to  be  sold  by 
Francis  Green,  Statiumr  in  Canii)ridge.  "  It  is  unlikely 
thai  such  iinjjortant  aiiuouni  enients,  mice  jiul  on  a 
tille-page,  would  he  removed  and  then  siil)se(|uetitly 
restored.  More  jiroliaMy  after  the  l)Ook  v\as  published 
it  was  noticed  that  no  place  of  sale  had  been  men- 
tioned. A  new  title  page  was  therefore  tried  and, 
with  a  few  triflinp  changes,  was  adopted  for  the  second 
edition  of  the  same  year.  It  would  be  strange  indeed 
to  announce  the  place  of  sale  on  ihe  private  presenta- 
tion copies  and  to  remove  it  from  the  public  ones 
offered  in  the  shops. 

2.  The  I  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems  |  Private 
Cir- 1  culation.  |  By  Mr.  (ieorge  Herbert.  |  Psal. 
29.  I  III  hisTem])le  doth  every  |  man  speak  of 
his  honour.  |  Cambridge  :  |  Printed  by  Thom. 
Buck,  I  and  Roger  Daniel,  printers  |  to  the 
Universitie.  |  1633. 

12°,  bound  by  Worsfold  in  olive  levant. 

»*^  Title  page  mounted.  With  the  book-plate  of 
Thomas  Jefferson  McKee. 

A  copy  differing  from  the  preceding  only  in  the 
upper  third  of  the  lule-page.  Apparently  one  of  its 
owners  had  heard  the  report  of  privately  printed  copies, 
commanding;  a  high  price,  and  wished  his  own  to  pass 
for  one  of  these.  Not  having  seen  them,  however, 
he  merely  altered  skilfully  the  words]  "  and  |  Private 
Eja- 1  culations  "  |  so  as  to  read  |  "  Private  Cir- 1  cula- 
tion "  I  ,  but  left  the  date  and  remainder  of  the  page 
to  show  the  fraud. 

3.  The  I  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems  |  And  | 
Private  Ejacu-  |  lations.  |  By  Mr.  George  Her- 
bert, I  late  Oratour  of  the  Universitie  |  of  Cam- 
bridge. I  The  second  Edition.  |  Psal.  29.  |  In 
his  Temple  doth  every  man  |  speak  of  his 
honour.  |  Printed  by  T.  Buck  and  R.  Daniel, 
I  printers  to  the  Universitie  |  of  Cambridge, 
1633. 1 1  And  are  to  be  sold  by  Fr.  Green. 

1 2°,  green  morocco.  Collation  the  same  as  the  first 
edition. 

^*^The  type  has  been  reset  throughout  and  some 
of  the  ornaments  have  been  changed.  On  p.  i, 
stanza  3.  line  i,  reads  "  Wholly  abstain,  or  wed"  to 
give  the  line  a  better  rhythm.  Otherwise  the  varia- 
tions are  only  literal. 

4.  The  third  Edition,  1634. 

12°,  vellum.  Collation  same  as  the  preceding, 
except  that  the  ornamented  border  of  the  title-page  and 
the  head  ornaments  of  the  Chureh- Porch  and  of  Super - 
liminare  have  been  chani^ed,  and  The  Altar  has  been 
enclosed  in  a  surrounding  outline. 

5.  The  fourth  Edition,  1635. 

12°,  green  morocco.  Collation  same  as  the  preced- 
ing, except  that  the  title-page  reads  \  Private  Eja- 1,  and 
omits  And  are  to  be  sold  by  F"r.  Green,  and  that  a 
patterned  border  no7i.'  encloses  Stiperliminare  and  most 
of  the  ornaments  are  changed. 


6.     TllL-  fifth  Edition,   1638. 

12',  ^^ri-'.n  morocco,  i- Hilton  :nme  .?.  tk*  preced- 
ing, cACi/i  ihtit  a  ;/.:.■  lordir  surroun n  ti^  title  and 
sezrr  :.' .  '11  imenti  tii,-  chaii'ed. 


Th 


C    i 


em|jle. 


Sacred  Poems,  and 
private  eja(  ula-  |  tions.  |  By  Mr.  (icorge  Her- 
bert, I  late  Oratour  of  the  L.'ni\  ersitic  1  of  Cam- 
bridge. I  The  sixth  Edition.  |  Psal.  29.  (  In  hi.-> 
Temi^le  doth  every  man  speak  |  of  his  honour. 
I  Ornament  of  a  cherub' s  head.  Printed  by 
Roger  Daniel,  printer  to  the  |  Universitie  of 
Cambridge.  |  1641. 

12°,  purple  calf.  Collation  same  as  the  preceding, 
except  that  the  border  of  the  title  and  sex'eral  ornaments 
are  changed. 

8.  The  I  Synagogue,  |  Or,  |  The  Shadow  |  Of 
The  I  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems,  |  And  |  Private 
Eja-  I  culations.  |  In  imitation  of  Mr.  George  | 
Herbert.  |  Plin.  Secund.  lib.  i.  Epist.  5.  |  Stul- 
tissimum  credo  ad  imitandura  non  optima  | 
quai('l3.  proponere.  |  I  do  esteem  't  a  folly  not 
the  least  |  To  imitate  examples  not  the  best,  i 
The  second  Edition,  corrected  |  and  en- 
larged. I  London,  |  Printed  by  J.  L.  for  Phile- 
mon Stephens,  at  |  the  gilded  Lion  in  Pauls 
Church- I  yard.      1647. 

12°,  brown  levant.  Collation:  Title,  A  i ;  p)oeiD 
To  the  Authour  by  R.  L.,  verso;  text,  A  2-C  7, 
pp.  1-46,  and  14  unnumbered  pages;  commendatory 
verses  by  F.  L.,  C8.  Except  A  i  the  pages  of  signa- 
tures A  and  B  are  numbered,  1-46;  the  16  pages  of 
C  are  unnumbered. 

^*»This  collection  lacks  the  first  edition  of  The 
Synagogife.  In  this  second  edition  all  after  p.  28  is 
new,  except  The  Nativitie  and  The  Circumcision, 
which  have  a  different  place. 

9.  The  I  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems,  |  And 
private  |  Ejaculations.  |  By  |  Mr.  George  Her- 
bert, I  late  Oratour  of  the  |  University  of  |  Cam- 
bridge. I  The  seventh  Edition,  with  an  Alpha- 
betical! (  Table  for  ready  finding  out  chief 
places.  I  Psal.  29.  |  In  his  Temple  doth  every 
man  speak  of  his  honour.  |  London,  |  Printed 
by  T.  R.  for  Philemon  Stephens,  |  at  the 
gilded  Lyon  in  S.  Pauls  Church-yard.  |  1656. 

1 2°,  green  morocco.  Collation :  Title  in  orna- 
mented border,  *  I;  verso  blank;  The  Printer  to  the 
Reader,  *2-3;  The  Dedication,  *4;  verso  blank; 
The  Titles  of  the  several  |  Ptx^ms  contained  in  thisj 
Book,  *  5-6;  verso  blank;  text,  A1-H12,  pp.  i- 
192;  A  Table,  1 1 -K 6,  unnumbered;  verso  blank;  a 
new  title  in  ornamented  border  — 

The  I  Synagogue,  |  Or,  |  The  Shadow  I  Of  The  | 
Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems.  |  And  |  Private  Eja-  I  cula- 
tions; I  In  imitation  of  Mr.  George  |  Herbert.  ]  Phn. 
Sec.  lib.  I.  Ep.  5.  |  Stultissimum  credo  ad  imitandum 
non  optima  |  qu.vque  proponere.  1 1  do  esteem  't  a  folly 
not  the  least  |  To  imitate  examples  not  the  best.  (  The 
third  Edition,  corrected  |  and  enlarged.  |  Printed  for 
Philemon    Stephens,  at   the   guilded  I  Lion   in  Pauls 


A    HERBERT    DIBLIOGRAPHV 


Church-yrrd.  1657.  Ai;  poem,  To  tlie  Aulhour, 
by  K.  L.,  verso;  text,  A2-C10,  pp.  1-66;  com- 
mendatory verses  by  Iz.  \Va.,  F.  L.,  and  A.  S.,  C  1 1- 
12,  pp.  67-70. 

#*#This  and  the  following  editions  of  The  Temple 
and  Synagogue  are  pul)li>hcd  in  Li)ndon,  instead  of 
Cambriilge;  and  in  this  and  subsequent  editions  of 
The  Temple  A  'I'aMe  and  The  Synagogue  accompany 
it. 

This  third  edition  of  The  Synagogue  is  rearranged, 
the  poems  on  pp.  22-33  ^Je  added,  and  double  titles 
are  given  to  the  poems  on  pp.  35-42.  In  this  form 
it  appears  in  all  later  editions. 

10.  The  eighth  Edition  of  The  Temple, 
1660;  and  the  fourth  of  The  Synagogue, 
1661. 

12°,  green  morocco.  Collation  same  as  the  preced- 
ing:, except  that  this  is  Printed  by  R.  N.  for  Philemon 
Stephens  | ,  thiit  the  title-pa i^e  of  The  Synagogue  7- ends,  | 
Sacred  Poems,  and  |  Private  Ejaculations.  |  In  imitation 
of  I  -Mr.  George  Herbert,  and  that  most  of  the  orna- 
ments are  changed. 

11.  The  ninth  Edition  of  The  Temple, 
1667  ;  and  the  fifth  of  The  Synagogue,  1667. 

12°,  green  morocco.  Collation  substantially  the 
same  as  the  preceding ;  the  foilo-iuing  differences  exist: 
The  ornaments  and  borders  have  been  changed 
throughout ;  the  title-page  of  The  Temple  reads, ' '  with 
an  Alphabetical  |  Table  "  and  '•  Printed  by  J.  M.  for 
Philemon  Stephens,  |  and  are  to  be  Sold  at  the  Kings 
Arms  I  in  Chancery-Lane,  1667.";  the  title-page  of 
the  Synagogue  reads,  "The  |  Synagogue,  |  Or  The 
Shadow  I  Of  The  |  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems,  and  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations.  |  .  .  .  |  Printed  for  Philemon 
Stephens,  at  the  Kings  |  Arms  in  Chancery-Lane. 
1667. 1";  and  The  Synagogue  has  71  pages,  the 
numbering  beginning  with  the  title-page,  and  the 
back  of  the  "Dedication,"  formerly  blank,  being 
used. 

12.  The  I  Temple.  |  Sacred  Poems  |  And 
Private  |  Ejaculations.  |  By  Mr.  George  Her- 
bert, I  Late  Oratour  of  the  |  University  of  Cam- 
bridge. I  Together  with  his  Life.  With  |  several 
Additions.  |  Psal.  29.  |  In  his  Temple  doth 
every  man  speak  of  his  honour.  |  The  Tenth 
Edition,  with  an  Alphabetical  |  Table  for  ready 
finding  out  the  chief  places.  |  London,  |  Printed 
by  W.  Godbid,  for  R.  S.  and  are  to  |  be  Sold 
by  John  Williams  Junior,  in  Cross- 1  Key  Court 
in  Little-Britain,  1674. 

12°,  green  morocco.  Collation:  Portrait  of  Her- 
bert by  K.  White,  with  inscription  below.  The  Effigies 
of  Mr:  George  Herbert;  |  Author  of  those  Sacred 
Poems  called  I  The  Temple.;  title  as  above;  verso 
Vjlank;  four  unnumbered  leaves,  the  first  with  eight 
lines  of  verse,  and  the  heading.  These  Lines  should 
have  been  under  |  his  Picture.;  verso  blank;  the 
remaining  three  have  three  laudatory  poems,  the  first 
unsigned,  the  second,  P.  D.  Esqr.,  the  third,  Adver- 
sus  Impia|Anno  1670.;  The  Printer  to  the  Reader, 
*  2-*  3  (misprinted  *  4) ;  The  Dedication,  *4;  verso 
blank;  The  Titles  of  the  several  |  Poems  contained  in 
this  I  Book.,  *5-*6;  text,  A1-H12,  pp.  1-192;  A 
Table,  I  i-K  6,  unnumbered;   verso  blank;   The  I  Life 


!  Of  1  Mr.  George  Herbert,  A  l-C  6,  pp.  1-60;   a  new 
title-page  — 

The  Synagogue :  j  Or  The  |  Shadow  ]  Of  The  |  Tem- 
ple. |  Sacred  Poems,  I  And  I  Private  Ejaculations.  |  In 
Imitation  of|Mr.  George  Herbert.  |  (Quotation  from 
Pliny  with  translation.  \  The  Sixth  Edition,  Corrected 
and  Enlarged.  |  London  |  Printed  for  Robert  Stephens, 
at  the  Kings-Arms  I  in  Chancery-Lane,  1673.  Colla- 
tion thereafter  the  same  as  for  the  fifth  edition,  except 
that  most  of  the  ornaments  have  been  changed. 

i* jf  From  this  time  the  portrait  and  the  Life  of 
Herbert  by  Izaac  Walton  regularly  appear,  the  Life 
being  often  placed  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 

In  this  and  subsequent  editions  of  The  Temple, 
Superliminare  and  The  Altar  are  printed  on  engraved 
pages,  one  representing  the  door  of  a  church  and  the 
other  an  altar. 

13.  The  eleventh  Edition  of  The  Temple, 
1679;  and  the  seventh  of  The  Synagogue, 
1679. 

12°,  green  morocco.  Collation  same  as  the  preced- 
ing, except  for  iiuo  changes  of  the  title-page  of  The 
'Temple,  where  the  present  reads.  Together  with  his 
Life.  I  Psal.  29  |  etc.,  and  Printed  by  S.  Roycroft,  for 
R.  S.  and  are  to  be  Sold  |  by  John  Williams  Junior, 
at  the  Crown  in  St.  |  Pauls  Church-yard,  167.9;  the 
arrangement  of  the  preliminary  matter  of  The  I'emple, 
7i'hicJi  is  here:  portrait;  title;  verso  blank;  The 
Dedication;  verso  blank;  The  Titles  of  the  several 
Poems,  etc.  (3  pp.);  verso  blank;  verses,  These 
Lines  should  have  been  under  his  Picture,  A 4;  verso 
blank;  three  laudatory  poems,  A 5-7;  The  Printer  to 
the  Reader  (4  pp.);  the  imprint  of  The  Synagogue, 
which  is  the  same  as  that  of  the  eleventh  edition  of  'The 
Temple,  but  -with  "1679."  instead  o/"l67.9"; 
many  of  the  ornaments;  and  the  Tife  of  Herbert, 
-which  has  been  reset  and  7ioT.a  contains  j6  pages, 
omitting  the  notice  of  Herbert''  s  -wife  (A  I-C4).  'This 
is  71070  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 

14.  The  eleventh  Edition  of  The  Temple, 
1695  ;  and  the  sixth  of  The  Synagogue,  1673. 

12°,  green  morocco.  Collation  siniilar  to  the  pre- 
ceding. 

^*^  This  is  called  the  eleventh  edition  of  The 
Temple,  but  seems  to  be  an  irregular  and  rare  edition, 
not  owned  by  the  British  Museum.  Except  for  the 
title-page  and  the  three  leaves  immediately  following 
it  is  exactly  a  duplicate  of  the  edition  of  1674;  it  has 
leaf  *  3  misprinted  *4,  as  in  that  edition;  The  Gyna- 
gf)gue  is  the  sixth  edition,  as  there;  the  \}!.c  of  Her- 
bert is  on  60  pages,  as  in  that  edition,  instead  of  56, 
as  in  the  edition  of  1679.  The  title-page  of  this 
edition  differs  from  the  earlier  one  in  that  it  reads, 
"Together  with  his  Life.  With  Se- 1  veral  Additions" 
and  "  I'rinted  for  R.  S.  and  are  to  be  Sold  by  Rich- 
ard Willington  at  the  Lute  in  St.  Paul's  Church-Yard, 
1695."  Apparently  some  copies  of  the  1674  edition 
came  into  the  hands  of  another  bookseller,  Richard 
Willington,  in  1695,  and  he  reissued  them  with  a  new 
title-page  and  with  the  four  preliminary  leaves  reset, 
and  condensed  to  three  leaves.  Knowing  nothing  of 
the  edition  of  1679,  the  real  eleventh  edition,  and 
reckoning  from  the  title-page  of  1674,  which  he  dis- 
carded, he  called  this  the  eleventh  edition. 


15.   The  I  Temple. 
Private  |  F^jaculations. 


Sacred    Poems,  |  And 
Ry  Mr.  George  Her- 


A   HERBERT   nililJUGRAniV 


bert,  I  Late  Orator  of  the  University  |  of  Cam 
bridge.  |  Together  with  His  Life.  |  Psal.  xxix. ) 
In  his  Temple  doth  every  man  s[)eak  of  his 
Honour.  |  The  Twelfth  Edition  Corrected, 
with  the  I  Addition  of  an  Alphabeliral  Tabic. 
I  I^ndon,  I  Printed  by  J.  Barber,  for  JelTery 
Wale,  at  |  the  Angel  in  St.  Paul's  Churc  h- 
Yard.      1703. 

12°,  original  panelled  calf.  Collation:  Portrait  of 
Herbert  by  Sturt,  with  inscription  above  "The  KfCi^ic'- 
of  Mr.  George  Herbert,"  and  1h;1ow  the  eight  lines  of 
verse  which  were  printed  on  a  separate  page  in  t he- 
tenth  and  eleventh  editions,  Ai  verso;  title,  A  2; 
verso  blank;  three  laudatory  poems,  A 3-5;  The  De- 
dication, A6;  The  Titles  of  the  Several  Poems,  etc., 
A6  verso-7;  text,  A8-I7,  pp.  1-192;  A  Table, 
I8-K12;    verso  blank. 

l-'or  The  Synagogue,  eighth  edition,  the  title-page 
and  collation  are  much  the  same  as  for  the  seventh  ; 
the  ifnpritit  reads.  Printed  by  J.  Barber,  for  Jeffery 
Wale,  at  |  the  Angel  in  St.  Paul's  Church- V'ard.  1703; 
the  ornaments  are  replaced  by  double  lines  and  there 
are  yj  pages  ;  the  Life  of  Herbert  contains  jS  pages. 

^*^This  copy  contains  the  book-plate  of  Richard 
Le  Gallienne. 

16.  The  thirteenth  Edition  of  The  Tem- 
ple, 1709  ;  and  the  ninth  of  The  Synagogue, 
1709. 

12°,  original  panelled  calf.  Collation  the  same  as 
the  preceding,  except  for  the  imprints  which  read. 
Printed  for  John  Wyat  at  the  Rose  in  St.  Paul's  | 
Church- Yard.  1709.  (The  Temple),  am/ Printed  for 
John  Wyat  at  the  Rose  in  St.  Paul's  |  Church-Yard, 
and  Eben.  Tracy  at  the  Three  |  Bibles  on  London- 
Bridge.  1709.  (The  Synagogue);  and  for  the  leaf  of 
advertisement  at  tJie  end. 


Modern  Editions  of  The  Temple 

1 .  The  Temple  :  Sacred  Poems  and  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations.  By  the  Rev.  George 
Herbert.  Late  Orator  of  the  University  of 
Cambridge.  To  which  is  added,  A  Biographi- 
cal Sketch  of  the  Author.  In  his  Temple 
doth  every  Man  speak  of  his  Honour.  Psa. 
xxix,  A  New  Edition.  Bristol :  Printed  By 
And  For  R.  Edwards ;  And  Sold  By  T.  Hurst, 
Pater-Noster-Row,  London.     1799. 

12°,  half  levant,  pp.  xxxn,  274,  (2).  Includes  a 
four  page  Preface  by  the  unknown  editor,  Walton's 
Life,  and  The  Synagogue. 

^*^I  cannot  discover  any  edition  of  The  Temple 
between  this  and  that  of  1709,  which  this  closely 
follows;  reproducing  from  it  the  two  curious  plates 
for  Superliniinare  and  The  .\ltar  which  that  and  several 
prececUng  editions  contained.  But  some  of  the  textual 
errors  of  that  edition  are  here  corrected. 

2.  The  Temple  :  Sacred  Poems,  .And  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations.  To  which  is  added  :\ 
Priest  To  The   Temple,  Or,  The    Country 


Parson.  By  the  Rev.  George  Herbert,  I.ate 
Orator  of  the  Univcrsit)  lA  Cambridgr-.  With 
A  Biograjjhical  Sketch  Of  'I  he  Auth"-':.  In 
his  Tem]jle  doth  every  man  spcaV  <jf  his 
honour.  Psalm  xxix.  London  :  Printed  By 
Richard  Edwards,  Crane  Court,  Fleet  Street, 
For  W.  Suttaby  Scale  herd  and  l.etterman, 
and  Crosby  and  Co.  i  S06. 
12^,  cloth,  pp.  i-xxxviii,  |  39] -368. 

^*,  Has  the  snmi;  Preface  as  the  precerliiig,  wish 
Walton's  Life;  but  omits  1  he  Synagogue  and  includes 
The  Country  Parson. 

3.  The  Life  And  Writings  Of  The  Rev. 
George  Herl)ert :  With  The  Synagogue,  In 
Imitation  Of  Herbert.  "  Of  the  long  and 
splendid  list  of  British  Poets,  from  the  earliest 
days  down  to  Byron  and  Moore,  there  ha\e 
been  only  some  half  dozen  writers,  smit  with 
the  love  of  sacred  song,  whose  genius  was 
kindled  at  the  altar  of  Christian  devotion." 
Lowell,  Mass.  Published  By  George  Wood- 
ward.    1834. 

12°,  cloth,  pp.  i-xvi,  [i7]-[452]. 

^*^The  first  American  edition.  Given  me  by 
Bishop  Cameron  Mann,  and  bearing  his  book-plate. 

4.  The  Temple  :  Or  Sacred  Poems  And 
Private  Ejaculations.  A  Priest  to  the  Temple  ; 
Or  The  Country  Parson,  His  Character  And 
Rule  Of  Holy  Life.  By  Mr.  George  Herbert, 
Orator  Of  The  University  Of  Cambridge. 
Together  With  His  Life,  By  Isaac  Walton. 
London:  Edward Suter,  19, Cheapside.  1835. 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  xvi,  399. 

j"*^  In  this  appears  for  the  first  time  an  index  of 
first  lines,  a  feature  which  did  not  reappear  until  my 
edition  of  1 905. 

5.  The  Remains  Of  That  Sweet  Singer  Of 
The  Temple,  George  Herbert.  Wisdom  iv. 
X,  He  Pleased  God  And  Was  Beloved  Of 
Him  So  That  Whereas  He  Lived  Among 
Sinners  He  Translated  Him.  Ix)ndon,  Pick- 
ering. M  DCCC  XXXVI.  ( TIic-  title  in  an 
architectural  setting.) 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  cxxiv,  352. 

Half-title:  — 'Wit  Works  of  George  Herbert.  Vol. 
I.     Life  And  Remains. 

^*»This  volume  contains  all  that  appeared  in  The 
Remains  of  1652  (except  the  Apothegms'),  and  in 
addition  the  Life  by  Walton,  the  notes  and  letter  on 
\'aldesso,  Cornaro  on  Temperance,  the  Latin  Oratioi; 
on  Prince  Charles,  seventeen  Latin  letters,  fourteen 
English  letters,  and  an  engraving  of  Bemerton  church. 
In  these  two  vohinies  the  first  systematic  attempt  was 
made  to  present  the  entire  literary  work  of  Herl^ert  in 
accurate  form. 

6.  The  Temple  ;  Sacred  Poems  .And  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations  By  (leorge  Herbert.  Psalm 
xxix.       In    His   Temple    Doth    Ever}'    Man 


lO 


A    HERBERT   BIBLIOGRAPHY 


Speak  Of  His  Honour.  London,  Pickering. 
M  DCCC  XXXW  (  The  title  in  au  architec- 
tural setting.) 

8^,  cloth,  pp.  xxiv,  340,  \\  iih  leaf  of  advertisements 
at  end. 

I/i!l/-(i(U:  —  The  Works  of  George  Herbert.  \'ol. 
II.     Poems. 

^*»  An  epoch-making  edition  of  Ilerlx'rt,  the  text 
being  revised,  the  notes  left  by  S.  T.  Coleridge  being 
added,  and  the  Latin  poems  being  collected  for  the 
first  time.  There  is  also  a  brief  preface,  and  a  por- 
trait of  Herbert,  engraved  by  Aug.  Fox  from  that  by 

White. 

7.  The  Works  Of  George  Herbert  In  Prose 
and  Verse  London,  William  Pickering.   1846. 

2  vol.,  large  8°,  morocco,  pp.  xii,  414,  and  xxviii, 

384. 

Ilalf-tilUs  :  —  The  First  Volume  of  The  Works  of 
George  Herbert,  Containing  The  Remains  Of  That 
Sweet  Singer  Of  The  Temple. 

The  Second  \'olume  of  The  Works  of  George 
Herbert,  Containing  His  Temple,  Sacred  Poems  And 
Private  Ejaculations. 

,*^The  first  edition  of  Pickering's  Herbert  in  large 
print  and  paper.  It  contains  the  same  as  his  previous 
edition,  except  that  there  is  added  to  The  Remains 
an'  Oration  on  Conferring  Degrees,  another  letter  of 
Donne  to  Lady  Herbert,  and  a  Prayer  of  Nicholas 
Fenais.  To  the  volume  of  Poems  the  Parentalia 
have  been  added  with  a  few  other  Latin  poems  — 
among  them  the  two  in  Herbert's  autograph  which 
appear  in  the  copy  of  Walton's  Life  belonging  to  this 
collection.  Here,  too,  are  four  additional  English 
poems.  A  four  page  Advertisement  or  preface  has 
been  given  to  The  Synagogue,  and  the  preface  to  the 
whole  volume  has  been  rewritten. 

8.  The  Works  Of  George  Herbert,  In 
Prose  And  Verse.  Edited  By  The  Rev. 
Robert  Aris  Willmott,  Incumbent  Of  Bear 
Wood.  With  Illustrations.  London :  George 
Routledge  and  Co.,  Farringdon  Street.    1854. 

8°,  calf,  pp.  xxxvi,  466. 

^*^The  first  complete  edition  of  Herbert's  works 
(Latin  included)  in  a  single  volume,  and  also  the  first 
with  illustrations.  Willmott's  Introduction  and  Notes 
are  more  elaborate  and  scholarly  than  those  of  Cole- 
ridge, his  sole  predecessor  in  annotation. 

This  copy  contains  the  book-plate  of  Augustus 
Hare  and  the  inscription  "  Augustus  C.  J.  Hare,  from 
his  affectionate  friend  and  kinsman  W^  B.  Clayton 
March  13,  1856." 

9.  The  Poetical  Works  Of  George  Herbert. 
With  Life,  Critical  Dissertation,  and  Explana- 
tory Notes,  By  The  Rev.  George  Gilfillan. 
New  York  :  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  Broadway. 
Edinburgh:  James  Nichol.     M.DCCC.LIV. 

Large  8',  calf,  pp.  xxviii,  328. 

**^  Contains  an  introductory  essay  of  moderate 
merit,  no  notes,  The  Temple,  The  Synagogue,  and 
Jacula  Prudentura.  Its  only  merit  for  the  public  is 
its  handsome  page,  but  to  me  it  is  endeared  through 
having  been  the  volume  in  which  I  first  came  to  know 
Herbert. 


10.  The  Poetical  Works  Of  George  Her- 
bert. Illustrated.  London :  James  Nisbet 
and  Co.     Berners  Street.     MDCCCLVI. 

4°,  ornamented  cloth,  pp.  (2),  256.  The  illustra- 
tions are  by  Foster,  Clayton.  Humphreys,  Evans, 
Dalziel,  and  Woods. 

^*^  This  copy  has  the  inscription,  "A.  Pretor,  from 
his  friend  J.  A.  Symonds,  Festival  of  St.  James  July 
25  58.     Harrow." 

11.  The  Works  Of  George  Herbert  In 
Prose  And  Verse.  London.  Bell  and  Daldy, 
Fleet  Street.     1859. 

2  vol.,  calf,  pp.  xii,  438,  and  xxviii,  384. 

^*+This  is  a  reprint  of  Pickering's  edition,  though 
the  type  has  been  reset  and  at  the  bottom  of  the  page 
in  the  volume  of  poems  are  printed  valuable  notes  by 
James  Yeowell,  the  editor  of  Notes  and  Queries. 

This  copy  has  the  book-plate  of  Thomas  Westwood. 

12.  The  Poetical  Works  Of  George  Her- 
bert ;  And  The  Synagogue,  By  C.  Harvey. 
With  Introduction  By  John  Nichol,  B.A, 
Oxon.,  Professor  Of  Enghsh  Literature,  Uni- 
\ersity  Of  Glasgow.  The  Text  Edited  By 
Charles  Cowden  Clarke.  London  :  R.  &  A. 
Suttaby,  2  Amen  Corner.      1863. 

8°,  stamped  calf,  ornamented  text,  pp.  xl,  311. 

**^,A  carefully  edited  book  with  a  valuable  essay 
on  the  Life  and  Poetry  of  Herbert.  It  contains  only 
the  English  poems. 

13.  The  Temple,  Sacred  Poems  And  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations,  By  George  Herbert.  "  In 
His  Temple  doth  every  man  speak  of  His 
honour."  Psalm,  xxix.  London :  Bell  and 
Daldy,  York  Street,  Covent  Garden.     1869. 

Sm.  12°,  cloth,  pp.  X,  214. 

^*^  A  convenient  pocket  edition  of  the  English 
poems. 

14.  The  Temple.  Sacred  Poems  And  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations.  By  George  Herbert.  Being 
a  Facsimile  Reprint  of  the  First  Edition 
With  An  Introduction  By  The  Rev.  Alexander 
B.  Grosart.  London  :  Eliot  Stock,  62,  Pater- 
noster Row.     1876. 

12°,  cloth,  pp.  xvi,  (8),  192,  (3). 

^*»The  first  attempt  at  reprinting  the  original,  but 
damaged  by  inaccuracy.  It  reproduces  not  the  first 
edition,  but  the  undated  one. 

15.  The  Temple.  Sacred  Poems  And  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations.  By  George  Herbert.  Being 
a  Facsimile  Reprint  of  the  First  Edition 
With  An  Introduction  By  The  Rev.  Alexander 
B.  Grosart.  New  York,  The  Baker  and  Tay- 
lor Co.     9,  Bond  Street,     n.  d. 

1 2^  cloth,  pp.  xvi,  (8),  192,  (3). 

^*^  The  Amcnc.in  issue  of  the  preceding. 


A   liLKlillki    iiii;l.i<M,K.\iHN 


I  I 


1 6.  The  Fuller  Worthies'  Library.  The 
Coini)lete  Works  In  Vers*;  And  I'rose  (.){ 
(ieorgc  Jlerbert.  For  the  fust  time  fully 
(  ollected  and  collated  with  the  original  and 
early  editions  and  mss.  and  much  enlarged 
with:  I.  Hitherto  unprinted  and  inedited 
jjoems  and  })rose  from  the  Williams  mss.  etc. 

II.  Translation  of  the  whole  of  the  Latin 
and  (ircek  verse  and  I-atin  ])rosc.  iii. 
Memorial-introduction,  essay  on  life  and 
writings,  and  notes  and  introductions,  iv. 
In  quarto,  portraits  on  steel  and  other  spe- 
cially-prepared illustrations  and  facsimiles. 
Edited  by  the  Rev.  Alexander  B.  (Jrosart,  St. 
George's,  Blackburn,  lancashire.  In  Three 
Volumes.  Printed  For  Private  Circulation. 
[Ix)ndon.]  1874.      100  copies  only. 

3  vol.,  4°,  large  paper,  roxburghe,  vol.  I,  \'erse, 
pp.  Ixviii,  314;    vol.   II,  Verse,   pp.  cxlii,   237;    vol. 

III,  Prose,  pp.  xviii,  504. 

***  A  marvelous  storehouse  of  information  about 
HcrlK'rt  and  all  who  came  near  him,  ill-arranged, 
with  no  index,  full  of  error,  prolixity,  bad  taste,  and 
egotism,  yet  indispcnsal)le  for  the  scholar  and  making 
as  true  an  epoch  in  the  study  of  Herbert  as  I'icker- 
ing's  editions  made  forty  years  lx.'fore.  Dr.  Grosart's 
wide  and  enthusiastic  reading  has  brought  together  a 
mass  of  curious  material  not  easily  obtainable  else- 
where, his  greatest  single  service  being  the  discovery 
of  the  Williams  Ms.  But  making  a  bad  use  of  this, 
he  has  rendered  his  own  text  worthless;  for  he  has 
picked  from  the  Williams  MS.  or  the  edition  of  1633 
whatever  readings  Ixist  pleased  his  fancy  and  so  has 
produced  poems  which  Herbert  never  saw. 

17.  The  Fuller  Worthies'  Library.  The 
Complete  Works  In  \'erse  And  Prose  Of 
George  Herbert.  ...  In  Three  Volumes. 
Printed  For  Private  Circulation.  [London.] 
1874.     100  copies  only. 

3  vol.,  8°,  cloth.  7V/e  S(2me  as  the  preceding, 
except  in  size  and  in  the  absence  of  illustrations. 

18.  The  Poetical  Works  Of  George  Her- 
bert. Edited  By  A.  B.  Grosart.  London, 
George  Bell  and  Sons,  York  Street,  Covent 
Garden.      1876. 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  (2),  clxxx,  403. 

^*^  Into  this  single  volume  Dr.  Grosart  has  put  all 
the  text  and  most  of  the  notes  and  discussion  of  his 
larger  editions.  For  the  very  full,  if  sometimes  whim- 
sical, annotation,  every  reader  will  be  grateful. 

19.  First  Edition,  1633.  Fac- Simile  Re- 
print. The  Temple :  Sacred  Poems  And 
Private  Ejaculations  By  Mr.  George  Her- 
bert. Fourth  Edition  ^Vith  Introductory 
Essay  By  J.  Henry  Shorthouse.  London: 
T.  Fisher  Unwin,  17,  Holborn  X'iaduct. 
MDCCCLXXXHL 

8°,  black  morocco,  pp.  xxii,  (8),  192,  (3). 
,*,  Shorthouse 's  rather  sentimental  essay  gives  this 
book  a  certain  importance. 


20.  The  Poems  of  (ieorge  HerlH-rl.  To 
whi(  h  are  a<lded  Scler  lions  from  his  Prose, 
and  Walton's  "Life."  With  I'rcf.itory  Noti<  e 
by  ICrnest  Rhys.  London  :  Walter  S<  olt,  24 
Warwick  I^mc,  Paternoster  Row,  and  New- 
castle-on-Tyne.     1885.     (Canterbury  Poets.) 

.Small  sij.  8^,  parchment,  pp.  xxxiv,  317. 

,*»\Vith  a  portrait.  An  intelligent  introductory 
essay,  sensible  notes,  Ijorro wed  lor  the  nio^t  part  frf)m 
previous  editors,  with  wise  selections  from  1  heCountr)' 
I'arson  and  Jacula  I'rudentum.  Hut  the  text  Ls  mainly 
that  of  (jrosart. 

2  1.  The  Temple;  Sacred  Poems  and  Pri- 
vate Ejaculations,  by  (ieorge  Herbert.  With 
Engravings  after  Albert  IXirer,  Marcantonio, 
Holbein  &  other  Artists.  New  York,  Mac- 
millan  &  Co.,  66  Fifth  Avenue.     1894. 

8°,  ornamented  cloth,  pp.  xxiv,  252. 

„*,'rhe  text  is  that  of  1633,  and  the  seventy-five 
fragments  of  early  engravings  incorporated  in  it  suc- 
cessfully convey  to  the  eye  its  quaintness  and  its  sim- 
plicity,    A  few  pages  of  notes  are  added. 

22.  The  Temi)lfe  by  (ieorge  Herbert. 
With  Notes  and  Introduction  by  Edgar  C.  S. 
Gibson,  D.D.,  Vicar  of  Leeds.  Methuen  & 
Co.,  36  Essex  St.  W.  C.  London.  1899. 
(Library  of  Devotion.) 

Sm.  8°,  cloth,  pp.  cxii,  258. 

^,*^  By  far  the  most  scholarly  edition  using  the 
Williams  MS.,  the  readings  of  which  are  noted  while 
the  text  follows  that  of  1633.  Notes  are  at  the  foot 
of  the  page  and  there  is  an  admirable  Introduction 
with  Walton's  Life. 

23.  The  Temple  and  A  Priest  to  the 
Temple  by  Cieorge  Herbert.  Edited  by 
A.  R.  Waller.  London  :  J.  M.  Dent  &  Co. 
29  &  30,  Bedford  Street,  Covent  Ciarden, 
W.C.      1902.      (Cloister  Library.) 

8°,  white  cloth,  pp.  x,  309,  with  portrait. 

^*^  Grosart's  text,  without  notes  or  introduction, 
but  with  index  of  unusual  words  and  list  of  dates. 

24.  Poems  by  (ieorge  Herbert.  With  an 
Introduction  by  His  Grace  the  Archbishop 
of  Armagh.  Blackie  &  Son,  London,  n.  d. 
(Red  Letter  Library.) 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  XX,  371. 

^*»  A  pleasing  and  unimj.x)rtant  edition,  but  with 
an  interestmg  little  preface. 

25.  The  Temple  ;  Sacred  Poems  and  Pri- 
vate I'.jaculations,  by  George  Herbert.  Lon- 
don :  (ieorge  Bell  and  Sons.  1904.  (The 
Chiswick  (Quartos.) 

4°,  ornamented  white  doth,  pp.  (61,  243.  with 
portrait. 

^*».\n  edition  aiming  at  lieauty  of  print,  jltiht, 
anil  binding,  but  not  otherwise  important. 


12 


A    llKUr.EUr    lUHLloCKAl'lIY 


26.  The  Plnglish  Works  of  (icoigc 
Herbert.  Newly  Arranged  and  Annotated 
and  Considered  in  Relation  to  his  Life,  by 
()eorge  Herbert  Palmer.  Boston  and  New 
York.  Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company. 
MDCCCCV. 

3  vol.,  S^,  cloth,  vol.  I,  Essays  and  Prose,  pp.  xx, 
429;  vol.  II,  Canibrkige  Poems,  pp.  xiv,  443;  vol. 
Ill,  Bemerton  Poems,  pp.  viii,  455. 

^*,  Hitherto  all  editions  of  Herbert  had  printed  his 
p)oeuis  in  the  traditional  order,  as  they  appear  in  the 
Bodleian  MS.  and  in  Ferrar's  edition  o(  1633.  Becom- 
ing convinced  that  the  Williams  ms.  could  not  have 
been  written  later  than  1630  and  so  contained  no 
poems  of  Herbert's  priesthood,  I  ventured  to  separate 
the  Bemerton  poenis  from  those  written  at  Cambridge 
and  within  these  large  periods  to  group  them  by  sub- 
jects, supplying  them  with  very  full  notes,  critical 
introductions,  photographic  illustrations,  and  the  read- 
ings of  both  Mss. 

27.  The  English  Works  of  George  Her- 
bert. Edited  by  George  Herbert  Paliner. 
Boston  and  New  York.  Houghton,  Mifflin 
and  Company.     MDCCCCV. 

6  vol.,  8°,  large  paper,  boards,  limited  to  150 
copies.  Vol.  I,  Essays,  pp.  xx,  191;  vol.  II,  Prose, 
pp.  viii,  233;  vol.  Ill,  Cambridge  Poems,  pp.  xiv, 
219;  vol.  IV,  Cambridge  Poems,  pp.  viii,  208;  vol. 
\',  Bemerton  Poems,  pp.  viii,  243;  vol.  VI,  Bemer- 
ton Poems,  pp.  viii,  211. 

^*^  The  same  in  contents  as  the  preceding. 

28.  The  English  Works  Of  George  Her- 
bert, ...  by  George  Herbert  Palmer.  Bos- 
ton and  New  York.  Houghton,  Mifflin  and 
Company.     MDCCCCVH. 

3  vol.,  8°,  pp.  XX,  443;  xiv,  437;  (6),  485. 

^*»  Second  edition  of  No.  26,  with  Index  of  Sub- 
jects, of  Biblical  passages,  additional  notes,  illustra- 
tions, and  revisions. 

29.  The  Poems  of  George  Herbert.  With 
an  Introduction  l)y  Arthur  Waugh.  Henry 
Frowde,  Oxford  University  Press.  London, 
New  York,  and  Toronto.  [1907.]  (The 
World's  Classics,  109.) 

Sm.  8^,  cloth,  pp.  xxviii,  277. 

»*»  Contains  the  Latin  as  well  as  the  English 
poems,  no  notes,  qn  ordinary  introduction  and  Gros- 
art's  text. 


30.  The  Temple  &  A  Priest  to  the  Tem- 
ple, by  (jeorge  Herbert.  London  :  Pub- 
lished by  J.  NL  Dent&:  Co.,  and  in  New  York 
by  I'.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  [1908.]  (Every- 
man's Library.) 

S'',  cloth,  pp.  XX,  305. 

^*^One  of  the  pretty  and  convenient  volumes  of 
Ever)-man's  Librar>-,  containing  a  brief  Introduction, 
lists  of  words,  dates,  and  bibliography,  but  no  notes. 


31.  I'he  Church  Porch,  by  George  Her- 
bert ;  With  Notes  for  Sunday  Use  in  Upper 
Forms,  edited  by  Edward  C.  Lowe,  D.D., 
Provost  of  S.  Nicholas  College;  Canon  of 
Ely;  late  Head  Master  of  S.  John's  School, 
Hurstpierpoint.  Third  Edition,  with  notes, 
revised  and  enlarged.  Oxford  and  London  : 
James  Parker  &  Co.,  377,  Strand.     1892. 

8°,  pp.  viii,  41. 

^*^  It  is  provided  in  the  Statutes  of  S.  Nicholas 
College  that  every  boy  learn  by  "heart  the  Church 
Porch  by  Mr.  George  Herbert."  Accordingly  Dr. 
Lowe  has  edited  the  poem  with  very  full  and  for  the 
most  part  unborrowed  notes. 


VI 

Writings  of  the  Brothers  of 
George  Herbert 

1.  De  I  Veritate,  |  Prout  Distinguitur  |  A 
Revelatione,  |  A  Verisimili,  A  Possibili,  |  Et 
A  Falso.  I  Hoc  Opus  Condidit  |  Edoardus  | 
Baro  Herbert  ]  De  Cherbury  In  Anglia,  |  Et 
Castri  Insulae  De  Kerry  In  |  Hibernia,  et  Par 
utriusque  |  Regni.  |  Et  Lectore  Cuivis,  ]  integri 
&  illibate  Judicii  |  dicavit.  j  Exc.  Lutetiae 
Parisiomm.  cio  loc  xxiv.  |  lam  denuo  sed 
auctius  &  emendatius  recud.  Londini  |  Per 
Augustinum  Matthaeum.     cio  loc  xxxiii. 

4°,  calf.  Collation:  Title  a i;  verso,  imprimatur; 
Epistola  ad  Lectorem  (dated,  Montgomery,  1632), 
32-3;   '^"^  Ai-Hh2,  pp.  1-244. 

^*^,This  is  the  first  London  Edition  of  Lord  Her- 
bert's first  book.  The  Paris  Edition  of  1624,  pub- 
lished a  few  months  before  his  recall  from  the  French 
embassy,  I  have  never  seen. 

A  book  which  has  won  for  Lord  Herbert  the  title 
of  The  Father  of  English  Deism,  since  in  it  he  for  the 
first  time  attempts  to  prove  that  all  "revealed" 
religion  is  "natural"  religion,  inherent  in  human 
nature. 

2.  The  1  Life  |  And  |  Raigne  |  Of  |  King 
Henry  |  The  Eighth.  |  Written  By  the  Right 
Honourable  |  Edward  |  Lord  Herbert  of  Cher- 
bury.  I  London,  |  Printed  by  E.  G.  for  Thomas 
Whitaker,  and  are  to  be  sold  at  |  his  shop,  at 
the  Kings  Arms  in  Pauls  Church-yard.    1 649. 

Folio,  calf.  Collation:  Portrait  of  Henry  VIII 
engraved  by  T.  Cecill;  title,  A  i ;  verso  blank;  The 
Epistle  Dedicatory,  A  2-4;  verso  blank;  An  Analy- 
ticall  Character  (inserted  leaf)  ;  Commendatory  verses 
by  Jam.  Howell,  verso;  text,  B  I-Cccc4,  pp.  I- 
575;  verso  blank;  An  Index,  Ddddi-4  and  recto  of 
an  inserted  leaf;    verso  blank. 

^♦^  Written  with  a  political  aim  between  1630  and 
1640,  during  Lord  Herbert's  retirement,  but  not  pub- 
lished till  a  year  after  his  death. 

3.  The  I  Life  |  And  |  Reign  |  Of  j  King 
Henry  |  The  |  Eighth.  |  Written  by  the  Right 


A  iiKUiJKur  i;inLiO(;R.\riiv 


13 


Honourable  I  Edward  I-ord  Herl)crt  |  Of]  Cher- 
bury.  I  Ixiiidon  :  |  rrinled  l)y  M.  Clark,  for 
Henry  Herringinan,  at  the  IJlew  An(  hor  |  in 
the  New  Exchange.      MDCLXXXII. 

Folio,  calf,  pp.  ((>),  63S,  (15).  Portrait  of  licnry 
VIII  by  VV.  F[aithorneJ. 

,*^  The  third  edition. 

4.  De  Causis  |  Ilrronnn,  |  Opus  |  Kdoardi  | 

Baronis  Her-  |  bert  |  He  (  Cherbury.  |  Rectum 

Index  sui  &:  |  obliqui.  |  ci.)  1,)  c  l.vi. 

Sm.  12°,  original  calf.  Collation:  Title,  Ai; 
verso  blank;  text,  A2-(i4,  pp.  3-152;  additional 
piece  without  title,  (1 5  H  9,  pp.  1-34;  [  Keligio 
I^aici]  without  title  or  pajjination,  H10-I2;  three 
Latin  poems,  without  pagination,  I  3—9. 

^*,This  treatise  on  fallacies  may  be  regarded  as  a 
kind  of  supplement  to  the  I)c  X'eritate. 

5.  Expeditio  |  In  |  Ream  |  Insulam,  |  Aii- 
thore  I  Edovardo  Domino  Herbert,  j  Barone 
de  Cherbury  in  Angba,  &c  |  Castri  Insul.ne  de 
Kerry  in  Hibernia,  &c  |  Pare  Utriusq;  Regni.  | 
Anno.  ^^)  CXXX.  |  Quam  pnblici  Juris  fecit 
Timotheus  |  Balduinus,  LL.  Doctor  b  Coll. 
Omn.  I  Anim.  a})ud  Oxonienses,  Socius.  |  Lon- 
dini,  I  Prostant  apud  Humphredum  Moseley, 
ad  In- 1  signia  Principis  in  Coimeterio  Paulino, 
1656. 

8°,  original  calf.  Collation:  Title,  ai;  verso 
blank ;  Lectori  Sequestro,  a  2-5 ;  to  King  Charles,  a  5 
verso-7;  Ad  Lectorem,  a  7  verso-b8;  text,  15 1- 
N2,  pp.  I-179;    verso  blank;    Index  Capitum,  N  3- 

0  3  (unnumbered);  verso  blank;  Errata,  O  4;  verso 
blank. 

«*, This  vindication  of  Buckingham's  unfortunate 
expedition  was  written  just  before  Herbert's  Keign  of 
Henry  VHI,  but  was  not  published  till  eight  years 
after  his  death. 

6.  The  I  Expedition  To  The  |  Isle  Of  Rhe. 

1  By  Edward  Lord  Herbert  |  Of  Cherbury, 
K.B.  I  London  :  |  Printed  By  Whittingham 
and  Wilkins.      i860. 

Sm.  4°,  stamped  cloth,  pp.  liv,  2S7. 

^■"^This,  the  original  English  of  which  the  preced 
ing  is  a   Latin  translation,   remained  in    manuscript 
until  privately  printed  by  the  Earl  of  I'owis  in  this 
edition,  accompanied  by  ten  genealogical  tables. 

7.  De  I  Religione  |  C.entilium,  |  errorum- 
que  apud  eos  causis  :  |  Authore  |  Edoardo  | 
Barone  Herbert  de  (Cherbury,  &  Castri  |  In- 
sulae  de  Kerry  in  Hibernia,  |  &  a  Sacris  Belli 
Consiliis  Regibus  Optimis  |  Jacobo  &  Carolo. 
I  Amstelaedami,  |  Typis  Blaeviorum,  |  M  DC 
LXIII. 

4°,  calf.  Collation:  Title;  verso  blank;  Lectori; 
Index  Capitum,  verso;  text,  Ai-Ff4,  pp.  1-231; 
Index  Rerum,  V  I  4  verso-C  g4  (unnuml>ered). 

^*^  Developing  the  religious  conceptions  of  the  De 
Veritate  and  probably  written  soon  after  that  work; 


but   not  pulili-^hed  until  fifteen  years  aficr  Lord  Hcr- 
Urt's  death. 

With  liook  plate  of  John  Davies,  L-.*!. 

H.  The  [  .\ntient  Religion  |  (Jf  TheKJen- 
liles,  I  .And  |  Causes  of  their  L.rrors  |  Con- 
sider'd  :  |  The  Mistakes  and  Kailiires  of  the 
Heathen  |  Priest.s  and  \Vise-.Men,  in  their  No- 
tions of  the  I  Deity,  and  Matters  of  Di\ine 
Worship,  are  |  E.xamin'd  ;  |  With  regard  to 
their  being  altogether  destitute  of|Di\ine 
Revelation.  |  With  a  (!ompleat  Index.  |  By  the 
Learned  and  Judicious  |  I'.dward  L<'  Herbert 
of  Cherbury,  &:c.|  London  :  |  Printed,  for  John 
Nutt,  near  Stationers-Hall,  1705. 

8°,  old  panelled  calf,  pp.  xvi,  388,  (12). 

^*<,The  first  work  of  IIerl)ert's  which  was  trans- 
lated into  English,  and  this  the  first  edition  of  the 
translation. 

9.  Occasional  ]  Verses  |  Of  |  Edward  Ix)rd 
Herbert,  |  Baron  |  Of  |  Cherbery  |  And  |  Castle- 
Island.  |  Deceased  in  August,  1648.)  Ix)ndon, 
I  Printed  by  T.  R.  for  Thomas  Dring,  at  the  | 
George  in  Fleet-street  near  Cliffords- 1  Inn. 
1665. 

Small  8°,  straight  grain  morocco.  Collation:  Title, 
Ai;  verso  blank;  dedication  to  the  grandsrm  of  Lord 
Herbert,  written  by  Henry  Herbert,  the  brother  of 
Edward  and  George,  A  2-3;   verso  blank;    text,  Bl- 

0  8,  pp.  1-95;    Errata,  G8  verso. 

^*^  In  A  Ditty,  p.  27,  and  An  Ode,  p.  61,  Lord 
Herbert  introduced  into  English  poetry  the  metre 
subsequently  used  by  Tennyson  in  In  Memoriam, 
employing  it  too  upon  the  same  subject,  "  Whether 
Ixive  Should  Continue  forever?  " 

With  book-plate  of  William  Gott,  Bishop  of  Truro. 

I  o.  The  Poems  Of  Lord  Herbert  Of  Cher- 
bury. Edited  With  An  Introduction  By  John 
Churton  Collins.  London,  Chatto  and  AVin- 
dus,  Piccadilly.      1881. 

8°,  half  levant,  pp.  xl,  136. 

,,*^The  preceding,  almost  unprocurable,  volume  is 
here  well  edited  and  provided  with  an  excellent  intro- 
duction. It  is  the  first  reprint  of  Lord  Herbert's 
verse  that  has  ever  appeared. 

II.   The  1  Life  |  Of  |  i:dwaril  Lord  Herbert 

1  Of  Cherbury,  |  Written  by  himself.  |  Pictuir 
of  Strawberry  Hill.  Strawberr)'-Hill  :  Printed 
in  the  Year  Mdcclxiv, 

4^,  original  calf.  Collation:  I'ortrait  of  Lord  Her- 
l)ert,  folded  plate;  title;  verso  bl.ink;  dedication  to 
the  Earl  of  I'owis,  ai ;  Advertisement,  a 2-b 2;  Genea- 
logicalTable,  folded  plate;  text,  .\  i-l'u2,  pp.  1-171 ; 
verso  blank. 

^•^.The  Autobiography  of  Ilerliert  remained  in 
manuscript  until  it  came  to  the  notiie  of  Horace  Wal- 
pole  who  printed  200  copies,'  of  which  this  is  one,  at 
liis  private  press. 

In  this  copy  there  is  laid  in   a  receipt,  signed  by 
I    Lord    Herbert    and    dated    March   8,    1645,    for   the 


u 


A    HERBERT   lilHLIOGRAni V 


all'^wance  granted  liim  by  rarlianicnl  in  consideralinn 
of  his  surrondcr  n(  Monigdinery  Castle  in  the  preced- 
ing year.       There  is  also  a  copy  ol  the  vote  of  the 
House  of  ("i>nim.>ns.  taken  from  their  iournals. 
NVitii  nld  liook-plate  of  G.  rennccoll. 

12.  The  Life  of  Eiiwarci  Lord  Herbert 
Of  Cherbury.  Written  by  Himself.  Ix)n- 
don  ;    Printe<l  for   L   Dodslev,  in  Pan->Lill. 

.\n)ccLxx. 

4",  morocco,  pp.  (lO),  173.  Collation  subslatiti- 
•lilv  the  same  as  the  preceding,  though  the  type  has  been 
reset. 

^*^This  is  the  first  public  edition  of  the  autobiog- 
raphy. 

13.  The  Autobiograi)hy  Of  Edward,  Ixjrd 
Herbert  Of  Cherbury.  With  Introduction, 
Notes,  Appendices,  and  a  Continuation  of 
the  Life  By  Sidney  L.  Lee,  B.A.  Balliol 
College,  O.xford.  With  Four  Etched  Por- 
traits. London,  John  C.  Nimmo,  14,  King 
Williai-n  Street,  Strand,  W.C.      1886. 

S°,  pp.  lx\"i,  369. 

if* if  By  far  the  most  complete  and  scholarly  edition 
of  the  Autobiography  that  has  ever  been  published. 

14.  .A  I  Dialogue  j  Between  |  A  Tutor  and 

his   Pupil.  I  By   Edward    Lord    Herbert,  |  Of 

Chirbury.  j  ]x)ndon  :  ]  Printed  for  W .  Bathoe, 

Bookseller,  in  the  Strand.  |  MDCCLXVHL 

4^,  half  morocco.  Collation:  Title,  A  2;  verso 
blank;  Advertisement,  A  3-4;  text,  Bi-Mm4,  pp. 
1-272. 

^**  Attributed  to  Lord  Herbert,  but  with  little 
evidence. 

15.  The  I  Two    First    Books,  |  Of  |  Philo- 

stratus,  I  Concerning  the   Life  of  |  ApoUonius 

Tyaneus  :  |  Written  Originally  in  Greek,  |  And 

now  Published  in   English  :  ]  Together  With 

Philological   Notes  |  Upon  each  Chapter.  [  By 

Charles  Blount,  Gent.  |  Nine  lines  of  Latin 

verse.       London,   |    Printed     for     Nathaniel 

Thompson,  next   Dore   to   the  Sign  |  of  the 

Cross-Keys   in   Fetter-I^ane,   Anno    Domini, 

1680. 

Foho,  pannelled  calf.  Collation:  Title,  A  i ;  verso 
blank;  The  Preface,  .^  2-4;  text,  Bi-Hh6,  pp.  i- 
243;   verso  blank. 

»**  In  the  notes  to  this  book  Charles  Blount,  a 
follower  of  Ix)rd  Herljert,  used  either  private  manu- 
scripts of  Herbert's  or  restatements  from  his  published 
works.  As  the  liook  was  condemned  and  burned, 
copies  of  it  are  rare. 

16.  Lord  Herbert  De  Cherbury  ;  Sa  \'ie  I^t 
.Ses  fEuvres,  ou  Les  Origines  De  J  .a  Philo.so- 
phie  Du  Sens  Commun  Vx  De  La  Thdologie 
Naturelle  En  Angleterre.  Par  Ch.  De  Re- 
musat,  Membre  de  I'Institut.  Paris,  Librairie 
Acad<^mi(iue,    Didier    et    C>e,   Libraires-£di- 


i   teurs,   35,   Ouai    Des  .\ugustins,   35.      1874. 
j   Tons  droits  reserves. 

!  12',  half  morocco,  pp.  (4   ,  viii,  311. 

»*^The  best  l-"rcnch  study  of  Lord  Herbert. 

17.  luluard  Lord  Herbert  \'on  Cherbury. 
Ein  Kritischer  Beitrag  Zur  Geschichte  Des 
Psychologismus  Und  Der  Religionsphiloso- 
phie  \'on  Dr.  C.  Guttler,  Privatdocent  An 
Der  Universitat  Miinchen.  Mit  Einem  Bild- 
ni.sse.  Miinchen,  1897.  C.  H.  Beck'sche 
Verlagsbuchhandlung.     Oskar  Beck. 

Large  8°,  half  morocco,  pp.  vi,  248. 
***The  best  German  study  of  Lord  Herbert. 

18.  The  Dove;  Or,  Passages  of  Cosmog- 
raphy ;  A  Poem  :  By  Richard  Zouche,  Civilian 
of  New  College,  Oxford,  etc.  Reprinted 
from  the  original  edition  of  1613;  With  a 
Memoir  and  Notes,  Collected  and  Arranged 
by  Richard  Walker,  B.D.,  a  Descendant. 
Fellow  of  Magdalene  College,  Oxford. 
Oxford,  H.  Slatter,  High-Street :  And  T. 
Rodd,  2,  Great  Newport-Street,  London. 
MDCCCXXXIX. 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  (4),  xliv,  82. 

***  On  p.  8  appears  a  Commendatory  Latin 
Epigram  of  four  lines  signed  Car.  Herbert,  N.C. 
Charles  was  the  fourth  of  the  Herbert  brothers,  a  year 
or  two  older  than  George.  He  died  while  at  the 
University. 

The  first  edition  of  this  book  was  printed  in  1630. 

19.  An  I  .Answer  To  j  The  most  Envious,  | 

Scandalous,    and    Libellous  '  Pamphlet,    En- 

tituled,  I  Mercuries  |  Message.  |  Or,  |  The  Copy 

of  a  Letter  sent  to  William  |  Laud,  Arch-bishop 

of  Canterbury  now  |  prisoner  in  the  Tower.  | 

Woodcut  of  hand  ivith   dagger.      [London. 

1 64 1.] 

Sm.  0,°,  calf,  lower  edge  of  title  shaved.  Colla- 
tion: Title,  Ai;  verso.  Woodcut  of  Laud;  text, 
A  2-4,  pp.  1-6. 

^*;j  A  doggerel  poem  in  abuse  of  Puritans  signed 
by  Tho.  Herbert,  the  youngest  of  the  Herbert  brothers, 
a  captain  in  the  navy.  In  1641  'Ihomas  Herbert 
printed  six  other  tracts. 

VH 

NicH()i..\s  Ferrar  and  LiiTi.t-:  Gidding 

I.  Memoirs  Of  The  Life  Of  Nicholas 
Ferrar.  By  P.  Peckard,  D.D.,  Master  Of 
Magdalen  College,  Cambridge.  Cambridge, 
Printed  by  J.  Archdeacon,  Printer  to  the 
University;  And  sold  by  J.  &  J.  Merrill,  and 
J.  Bowtell,  in  Cambridge;  and  T.  Payne  & 
Son,  at  the  Mews  Gate,  London.  MDCCXC. 

8°,  half  levant,  pp.  xvi,  316. 


A    HERBERT   IJIBLIOGK.M'U V 


*♦«  Besides  the  Life  of  Ferrar  this  volume  rontaiiis 
a  sketch  of  Nicholas  Ferrar,  Jr.;  a  letter  from  Edward 
Lenton,  vindicnling  himself  from  the  charpe  of  furnish- 
ing material  for  the  scurrilous  pamphlet  entitled  The 
Arminian  Nunnery  at  Little  Gidding;  a  catalogue  of 
the  Mss.  once  at  Little  Gidding;  a  jiortrail  of  Ferrar 
and  a  Genealogical  lahle. 

With  the  book-plate  of  J.  11.  Shorthouse. 

2.  Nicholas  Ferrar.  Two  Lives  By  His 
Brother  John  And  By  Doctor  jcbb.  Now 
first  Edited  with  Illustrations  By  J.  K.  H. 
Mayor,  M.A.,  Fellow  and  Assistant  Tutor  of 
St.  Johns  College,  Cambridge.  Cambriilge  : 
Printed  for  the  Editor  at  the  University  Press, 
and  Sold  by  Macmillan  &  Co.     1855. 

8°,  calf,  pp.  xlviii,  398. 

^*^,  An  admirable  piece  of  work,  the  two  carefully 
edited  Lives  being  followed  by  an  Appendix  containing 
an  account  of  all  the  extant  memorials  of  the  I'errars 
and  by  elalx)rate  notes,  the  whole  preceded  by  an 
introductory  paper  defending  Ferrar  from  the  slurs  of 
Carlyle. 

3.  Nicholas  Ferrar;  his  Household  and 
his  Friends.  p:dited  by  the  Rev.  T.  T. 
Carter,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Christ  Church, 
Oxford.  London,  Longmans,  Gjeen  &  Co. 
and  New  York  :    15  East  i6th  Street,  1892. 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  xxvi,  331. 

^,*,The  best  recent  life,  but  popular  and  devo- 
tional. 

4.  The  I  Anninian  |  Nunnery  :  |  Or,  |  A  Briefe 
Description  |  and  Relation  of  the  late  erected 
Mo-  I  nasticall  Place,  called  the  Arminian  | 
Nunnery  at  little  Gidding  in  |  Huntington- 
Shire.  Humbly  recommended  to  the  wise 
consideration  |  of  this  present  Parliament.  I 
The  Foundation  is  by  a  Company  of  Farrars  | 
at  Gidding.  IVood-cut  of  a  Nun  a>i(f  Church. 
Printed  for  Thomas  Underbill.     MDCXLL 

Sm.  4°,  unbound,  pp.  (2),  10. 

^**  An  attempt  on  the  part  of  some  extreme  Puri- 
tan, who  jirofesses  to  have  visited  the  Ferrars,  to  excite 
pubUc  feeling  against  them  and  bring  about  the  sup- 
pression of  their  house.  Its  influence  at  the  time  was 
considerable. 

5.  The  Story  Books  of  Little  Gidding; 
being  the  Religious  Dialogues  Recited  in 
the  Great  Room,  163 1-2.  From  the  Orig- 
inal Manuscript  of  Nicholas  Ferrar.  With  an 
Introduction  by  E.  Cruwys  Sharland.  \x>i\- 
don,  Seeley  and  Co.  Limited.  38,  (ireat 
Russell  Street.     1899. 

8°,  cloth,  Ivi,  291. 

^*^  Nicholas  Ferrar  wrote  for  his  devout  household 
a  series  of  moral  dialogues  to  be  recited  by  them  on 
Festival  Days  of  the  Church.  Several  volumes  of 
these  still  exist  in  manuscript.  In  this  volume  the 
earlier  dialogues  aie  for  the  first  time  printed. 


6.  TAkidv  BafTtAtKiJ.  The  Pourtrai' ture  '  Of 
I  His  Sacred  .Mnjcslie  ,  In  His  S^jliiudes  and 
Sufferings.  |  Whereuiito  are  annexc<l  His 
Praiersand  Ajjopthegmcs,  ikc.  kom.  X.  More 
than  Con(]uc'rour,  &.c.  (  lioiia  a^'cre,  \"  rnaL 
pati,  Regium  est.  |  Printe<l  in  K.  NL  Anno 
Dom.  1649 

Small  12",  old  bla(  k  calf,  ornamented.  CoUatir>n  : 
Title,  A  I:  Verso  blank;  a)mmcndalory  verses  by 
F.  N.  G,  A  2;  The  Contents,  A  3-4:  An  Epitaph  on 
KingCharlis,  VL-rso;  text,  H  I  - 1  7,  pp.  1-182;  I'raicrs, 
I8-K  I,  |)p.  1-12;    a  new  title  — 

AjKiphthegmata  ;  Aurea,  Regia,  I  Carolina.  |  .\|»oph 
thegnis|  I.  Thcolngicnl.  ,  II.  Mural.  |  III.  I'olitical.  | 
Collected  out  of  the  Incomparable  | 'KIKW'X  BAll- 
.VIKir  I  Of  I  His  most  glori.ius  Majestie  |  King  Charles 
the  First.  |  'I'hrc'  litiis  of  /  .itin  tinJ  Gifel.  I»ndon,| 
Printed  by  William  Du-panl,  and  are  to  bee  |  Sold  by 
Francis  Eglesfield  at  the  Marigold  |  in  St.  Pauls 
Church-yard.  1649.,  K  2;  verso  blank;  text,  K  3- 
M  2,  pp.  1-48. 

**,  A  late  edition  ( Almack  no.  4 1 ;  of  King  Charles' 
book,  having  on  the  last  dy-leaf  the  inscription  "  Mar) 
Farrer  alis  (alias?)  CoUett,  her  Booke."  It  was  prob- 
ably therefore  bound  by  her,  Nicholas  Ferrar's  favorite 
niece. 

7.  [Little  Gidding  Binding.]  The  New 
Testament.  London.  1630  ;  7<;7V/!  The  Whole 
Booke  of  Psalmes,  Collected  into  English 
Meeter  by  T.  Sternhold,  L  Hopkins,  W. 
Whittingham  and  others.     London.     1633. 

Sm.  12°,  bound  in  raised  embroidery,  gilt  edges, 
supposedly  by  the  Nuns  of  Little  Gidding.  The 
design  on  the  side  is  that  of  serpents  and  roses.  The 
volume  is  enclosed  in  a  folding  case. 

8.  John  Inglesant ;  a  Romance.  [By 
J.  H.  Shorthouse.]  London,  Macmillan  & 
Co.     1902. 

3  vol.,  large  8°,  cloth. 

»*»  This  romance  is  largely  concerned  with  Ferrai 
and  Little  Gidding. 

Copy  l>elonging  to  J.  H.  Shorthouse  with  letter  to 
him  Irom  Mre.  Humphry  Ward  and  his  book-plate. 

vni 

Other  Men  and  Books  Associated  wfth 
George  Herbert 

These  books  .ire  armnfjcH  in  the  order  of  the  periods  of 
Herbert's  life  to  wliicli  Uicy  refer. 

I.  [Threno-thriambeuticon.  Academije 
Cantabrigiensis  ob  damnum  lucrosum,  ct  in- 
foelicitatem  ftulicissimam.luctuosustriumphus. 
Cantabrigix,  exofficina  Joannis  Legat.  1603.] 

Sm.  4",  half  calf.  Coll.ition :  Title-page  lacking: 
Epistola  l)cdicatoriaand  three  Latin  pinrms  by  tlulicl- 
nuis  Smith,  *"  2  4;  versoblank;  tiM,  .\  I-I  4,  pp.  I- 
70,  and  two  p.iges  unnumbered. 

^•,The  Cambridge  volume  o(  Latin  laments  on 
the  death  of  (^Hitcn  EliialH.th  and  of  rejoicing  on  the 
accession  of  King  James,  those  l>eing  the  great  cx'CDts 
of  Ilerliert's  youth.     I  Ic  was  at  this  lime  ten  yean  old. 


10 


A    HERBERT    BlBLIUGRArH V 


2.  A  j  Manual  |  Of  |  The  Private  |  Devotions 
I  And  1  Meditations  |  Of  |  The  Right  Reve-  | 
rend  Father  in  God  |  Lancelot  Andrews  |  Late 
L.  Bishop  of ;  Winchester,  j  Translated  out  of 
a  fair  Greek  ms.  |  Of  His  Amanuensis.  |  By 
R.  D.  B.  D.  I  London,  ]  Printed  by  T.  Ratclif, 
&  N.  Thompson  |  for  Richard  Bentley.   1674. 

Sm.  12°,  old  calf,  first  edition  of  the  translation. 
Collation:  Engraved  title,  "A  Manual  of |  Private 
Devotions]  wiih  a  Manual  of|  Directions  for  the  Sicke 
I  By  Lancelot  Andrews  |  Late  Bishop  of  Winchester", 
.with  pictures  of  the  Bishop  at  prayer  and  on  his 
death-bed,  Ai ;  verso  blank;  title  as  above,  A2;  verso 
iJink;  dedication  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  A  3-5;  To 
The  Christian  Reader,  A 6  (misprinted,  A5)-8;  Latin 
quotations  from  four  Church  Fathers,  A  9;  The  Con- 
tents, A10-12;  versj  blank;  text,  B1-I5,  pp.  i- 
177  (misprinted  153);    verso  blank;   a  new  title  — 

A I  Manual  |  Of  |  Directions  |  For  The  |  Sick :  |  With 
many  Sweet  Medi- 1  tations  and  Devotions  of  |  the 
Right  Reverend  Fa- 1  ther  in  God,  |  Lancelot  Andrews, 
I  Late  L.  Bishop  of  |  Winchester.  |  To  which  are  added 
Prayers  for  the  |  Morning,  Evening,  and  H.  Com-| 
munion.  |  Translated  out  of  a  Greek  ms.  of  His  |  Pri- 
vate Devotions.  |  By  R.  D.  B.  D.  |  London,  |  Printed 
by  T.  R.  and  N.  T.  for  Ri-|  chard  Bentley.  1674., 
16;  verso  blank;  To  The  Christian  Reader,  I  7-10; 
text,  Iii-Nii;  The  Contents,  N11-12,  pp.  1-97; 
The  Contents,  In  verso-12,  unnumbered. 

^*»  Bishop  Andrews  was  the  Head  of  Westminster 
School  when  Herbert  entered  it  in  1605. 

3.  Parasynagma  Perthense  |  Et  |  Juramen- 
tum  Ecclesiae  |  Scoticanae  |  Et  |  A.M.  Anti- 
tamica- 1  micategoria.  |  Anno  M.DC.XX. 

Sm.  4°,  olive  levant.  Collation :  Title,  A  i ;  verso 
blank;  Praefatio,  A2-4;  text,  Bl-Di,  pp.  9-25 
(misprinted  26)  ;  Juramentum  Scoticanae  Ecclesiae, 
Drverso-E4,  pp.  26-40;  Pro  Supplici  Evangelico- 
rum  Ministrorum  In  Anglia  Ad  Serenissjmum  Regum 
contra  Lar.'atam  geminse  Academise  Gorgonem  Apolo- 
gia, Sive  Anti- tami- cami- categoria,  Authore  A.  M. 
(Latin  verses)  F1-4,  pp.  41-47;   verso  blank. 

^,*^f  This  exceedingly  rare  tract  contains  the  Latin 
verses  written  by  Andrew  Melville  in  1604  attacking 
episcopacy  and  the  two  Universities  (the  Thapies  and 
the  Cam)  its  chief  supporters. 

With  book-plate  of  John  Lord  Sheffield. 

4.  Memorials  of  the  Danvers  Family,  of 
Dauntsey  and  Cuhvorth :  Their  Ancestors 
and  Descendants  from  the  Conquest  till  the 
Termination  of  the  Eighteenth  Century ; 
with  some  Accounts  of  the  Alliances  of  the 
Family,  and  of  the  Places  where  they  were 
Seated.  By  F.  N.  Macnamara,  M.D.,  Surgeon- 
Major  (retired),  Indian  Army.  London: 
Hardy  &  Page,  21,  Old  Buildings,  Lincoln's 
Inn.     1895. 

8',  white  cloth,  pp.  xxvi,  572,  with  14  Illustrations 
aiid  17  Tables  of  Descent. 

,*,  Herbert's  father  died  in  1597;  in  1608  Lady 
Herbert  married  Sir  John  Danvers,  and  in  1629 
George  Herbert  married  Jane  Danvers.     This  book 


gives  a  full,  accurate,  and  interesting  account  of  the 
Danvers  family  in  all  its  branches. 

5.  Fragmenta  Regalia,  |  Or  |  Observations 

I  On  I  The  Late  Queen  |  Elizabeth,  |  Her  Times 

And  Favorits.  |  Written  by  Sir  Robert  Naun- 

ton,  I  Master  of  the  Court  of  Wards.  |  Printed, 

Anno  Dom.  1641. 

Sm.  4°,  calf.  Collation:  Title,  A  l;  verso  blank; 
text,  A2-F2,  pp.  3-43;   verso  blank. 

^*^  Naunton  was  Orator  of  Cambridge  University 
when  Herbert  entered  it  at  the  close  of  1609. 

6.  'O  'AYT0-KATA'KPIT02.  ]  The  |  Self- 
Condemned. «|  Or,  A  j  Letter  |  To  |  Mr.  Jo  : 
Goodwin  :  |  Shewing,  j  That  in  his  Essay  to 
justifie  the  equity,  |  and  regulames  of  the  late, 
and  present  |  proceedings  of  the  Army  by 
Principles  of  Rea-  |  son,  and  Religion,  he 
hath  condemned  |  himselfe  of  iniquity,  and 
variablenesse  in  |  the  highest  degree,  untill 
he  shall  |  explaine  himself  in  publike.  |  By  Sir 
Francis  Nethersole  Knight,  j  London,  Printed 
in  the  yeare  1648. 

Sm.  4'',  half  morocco.  Collation:  Title,  Al;  verso 
blank;   text,  A  2-4,  pp.  3-8;   a  new  title  — 

A  Bill  I  Drawn  up  with  the  Advice  of  the  Lord  | 
Cook,  and  exhibited  to  the  House  of  |  Commons  of 
the  Parliament  held  tertio  Caroli :  |  By  Sir  Francis 
Nethersole  Knight,  then  a  member  of  |  that  House.  | 
And  a  Speech  then  also  made  therein  by  him.  .  .  . 
London,  Printed  in  the  Year,  1659.;  inserted  sheet; 
verso  blank;  To  The  Reader,  inserted  sheet;  text, 
Di-4,  pp.  7-14. 

»*^  Nethersole  preceded  Herbert  in  the  Oratorship 
at  Cambridge  and  assisted  him  in  gaining  the  place  in 
1619. 

7.  Epithalamium  |  Illustris.  &  Feliciss.  Prin- 
cipum  I  Caroli  |  Regis  |  Et  ]  H.  Mariae  |  Reginae 
!  Magnse  Britanniae,  &c.  |  A  Musis  Canta- 
brigiensibus  |  decantatum.  |  Excudebat  Can- 
trellus  Legge,  Almae  |  Matris  Cantabrigiae 
Typographus.  |  MDCXXV. 

Sm.  4°,  half  morocco.  Collation:  Title;  verso 
blank;  text,  A1-K4,  pp.  1-80. 

^**  Congratulatory  Latin  verses  on  the  marriage  of 
King  Charles  I  and  Henrietta  Maria  in  1625.  Her- 
bert did  not  contribute  to  the  volume.  In  1623  he 
had  made  an  oration  of  welcome  to  Prince  Charles  on 
his  return  from  the  unsuccessful  wooing  in  Spain  (III, 
3,  above). 

8.  The  I  Workes  Of  |  The  Most  High  |  And 
Mightie  |  Prince,  |  James  |  By  The  Grace  Of  | 
God,  King  Of  Great  |  Britaine,  France  And 
I  Ireland,  Defender  |  of  the  Faith,  &c.  |  Pub- 
lished By  James,  Bishop  |  of  Winton,  and 
Deane  of  his  Majesties  |  Chappel  Royall.  | 
I  Reg.  3.  Vers.  12.  |  Loe,  I  have  given  thee 
a  wise  and  an  understanding  heart.  |  London 


A    lIKkbLkl    HIbMO<il<Al'in 


i7 


I  Printed  By  Robert  Barker  And  |  John  Bill, 
Printers  To  The  Kings  |  most  lOxcellent 
Majestic.  ]  Anno  1616.  ]  •  Cum  Privilcgio. 

Folio,  original  panelled  calf.  Collation:  Hall 
title;  engravin{»  of  King  James  seated  on  his  throne, 
verso;  Engraved  title  in  an  architectural  frame;  verso 
blank;  title  as  above,  ai;  verso  blank;  engraved 
arms  of  Eugland,  a  2;  verso  blank;  Epistle  Dedica- 
torie,  headed  by  Portrait  of  Prince  Charles,  33-4; 
verso  blank;  The  Preface,  bi-e2;  contents,  e4; 
text,  Ai-Bbb3,  pp.  1-569;   colophon,  verso. 

^*^  Each  cover  bears  the  royal  arms  in  gold.  On 
the  half-title  i^  written  "This  booke  was  sente  mee  by  ' 
Sir  John  Davers,  as  one  of  my  deare  Mothers  bookes. 
In  whose  memory  I  keepeitt  &  receive  itt  thankfully, 
this  26  Decemb.  162S.  II.  Ilerliert."  This  is  the 
brother  next  younger  than  George,  who  in  the  reigns 
of  James  and  Charles  was  Master  of  the  Revels  at 
Court.  In  1627  Herbert's  mother  died  and  her  hus-  , 
band.  Sir  John  Danvers,  marrying  again  in  the  follow- 
ing year  sends  this  precious  book  of  his  wife's  to  her 
son.  It  had  probably  been  given  her  by  the  king, 
whose  arms  it  bears.  And  as  George  was  this  year 
living  with  his  brother  Henry,  he  has  undoubtedly 
used  the  book. 

9.  Of  the  I  Government  |  Of  ]  Churches ;  | 
A  discourse  |  Pointing  at  the  Primitive  |  Form. 
I  Printed  by  Roger  Daniel,  Printer  |  to  the 
Universitie  of  Cam- 1  bridge.     1 64 1 . 

Sm.  8°,  levant.  Collation:  Title;  verso  blank; 
Epistle  Dedicatorie,  tIi2-3;  To  The  Reader,  tli3 
verso-4;    Faults  Escaped,  verso;   text,  A1-N8,  pp. 

1-208. 

»*,This  book  is  by  Herbert  Thorndike,  Herbert's 
Secretary,  who  succeeded  him  when  he  resigned  the 
Oratorship  in  1627. 

10.  Poems,  I  Written  by  the  |  Right  Honor- 
able I  William  j  Karl  Of  |  Pembroke,  |  Lord 
Steward  of  his  Majesties  Houshold.  |  Wherof 
I  Many  of  which  are  answered  by  way  of  Re- 
partee, 1  By  Sr  Benjamin  Ruddier,  |  Knight.  | 
With  several  Distinct  |  Poems,  |  Written  by 
them  Occasionally,  and  Apart.  |  London,  | 
Printed  by  Matthew  Inman,  and  are  to  be 
sold  by  1  James  Magnes,  in  Russel-Street, 
near  the  Piazza,  ]  in  Covent-Garden,  1660. 

8°,  straight  grain  morocco.  Collation:  Title,  A2; 
verso  blank;  dedicatory  letter  to  the  Countess  of 
Devonshire  by  the  son  of  Dr.  Donne,  A  3-4;  verso 
blank;  text,  I51-I3,  pp.  1-118. 

^*^  William,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  the  lord  of  Wilton 
House  and  kinsman  of  George  Herbert,  presented  him 
the  living  of  Bemerton  in  1630,  but  died  before  Her- 
bert settled  there.  T'i  him  the  first  folio  of  Shakspere 
is  dedicated. 

11.  Poems  j  of  I  William  Herbert,  |  Third 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  K.G.  |  and  |  Sir  Benjamin 
Rudyard.  |  Written  in  the  Time  of  King 
James  L  j  and  King  Charles  L  ]  The  Second 
Edition.  ]  I^ndon  :  |  Printed  by  Bensley  and 
Son,  1  Bolt  Court,  Fleet  Street,  |  for  R.  Trip- 


hook,    Old    Bond    Street;     and    J.    Major,  I 
Skinner  Street.  |  iSi  7. 

12',  half  morocco,  pp.  xxiv,  gt^ 

»*,  .\  reprint  by  Sir  Kgerlon  I'.rydgi-*  'A  ihe  |ife- 
ii-fling  rare  volume. 

I  2.  Ihe  first  jjarl  of  the  last  W  il  ^:  Testa- 
incnt  Of  Philip,  Farlc  of  I'cmbrooke  and 
Moiitg(jiiiery.      1649. 

The  I -1st  \\'ill  and  Testament  of  Philip 
Herbert,  \'ulgarly  Called  Earl  of  Pembroke 
and  Montgomery,      i^^so. 

The  Speech  of  Philip  Herbert,  I^te  Earl 
of  I'embroke.     1649. 

Sm.  4'',  half  calf.  Three  tracts  l>ound  in  one 
\olume. 

^*^ These  burlewjue  Wills  and  Speech  purport  to 
have  been  taken  down  liy  Michael  Oldsworth  and 
show  the  hatred  felt  for  Philip  Herbert  by  the  I'uritan 
party. 

Philip  was  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  during  Herbert's 
residence  at  Hemerton,  1630-1633. 

Inserted  is  a  piece  of  a  document  l^aring  the  signa- 
ture of  Philip  Herbert. 

13.  Prailectiones  |  De  Duobus  |  In.  Theo- 
logia  I  Controversis  |  Capitibus  :  |  De  (  Judice 
Contro-  I  versiarum,  |  Primo ;  ]  De  Justitia 
Habituali  |  Et  Actuali,  |  Altero  :  |  Per  |  Reve- 
rendissimum  Virum  |  Joan.  Davenantium,  | 
...  I  Cantabrigiae,  |  Ex  Academiae  celeberri- 
mae  Typographeo.  |  .Anno  MDCXXXL 

Folio,  original  calf,  pp.  (14),  641,  (22). 

^%John  Davenant  of  Salisbury  was  Herbert's 
bisliop  throughout  his  residence  at  Bemerton.  From 
him  he  received  ordination  and  by  him  was  buried. 
This  book  appeared  the  year  after  Herbert  went  to 
Bemerton. 

This  copy  contains  the  autograph  of  Benjamin 
Wadsworth,  1705,  tenth  President  of  Harvard  College. 

14.  Under  Salisbury  Spire  in  the  Days  of 
George  Herbert ;  the  Recollections  of  Mag- 
dalene Wydville.  By  Emma  Marshall.  Ele- 
venth Thousand.  London,  Seeley  and  Co., 
Limited,  Essex  Street,  Strand.     1896. 

S°,  cloth,  pp.  (4),  344- 

,*»  .\  popular  novel  of  slender  worth  based  on 
Walton's  account  of  Herbert. 

15.  The  1  Countrey  |  Justice,  |  Containing 
The  practise  of  the  Justices  |  of  the  Peace  out 
of  their  I  Sessions.  |  Gathereti,  for  the  l>etter 
helpe  of  1  such  Justices  of  Peace  as  have  not  | 
been  much  conversant  in  the  studie  |  of  tht- 
l^wcs  of  this  Realmc.  |  Newly  corrected  and 
inlarge<L  I  By  Michael  Dalton  of  |  Lincolnes 
Inne.  Gent,  j  Justice  is  the  StatTe  of  Peace, 
and  the  raainte- 1  nance  of  Honour.  Cic,  | 
Ix)ndon.  ]  Printed  for   the   Sorietie    of  |  Su- 


iS 


A   HERBERT   BIBLIOGRAPHY 


tioners.     An.  Dom.  ,  M.DC.  XIX.  j  Cum  Pri- 

vilegio. 

Folio,  old  calf,  engraved  title,  pp.  (i6),  372,  (10). 

,♦»  At  the  betjinning  of  Chapter  XXIII  of  The 
Country  Parson  Herbert  commends  this  book  of 
Dalton's. 

16.  Joann.  Fernelii  |  Ambiani,  (  Universa 
Medicina  |  Prinn'ini  quidem  studio  &  dili- 
gentia  |  CUiiljelmi  Plantii,  Cennomanni  |  elimi- 
nata,  |  Nunc  autem  notis,  observationibus,  & 

,  remediis  secretis  |  Joann.  &  Othonis  Heurni, 
Ultraject.  |  et  |  Aliorum  Praestantissimorum 
Mediconnii  scholiis  illustrata  |  .  .  .  Traiecti 
ad  Rhenuni,  |  Typis  Gisberti  a  Zijll,  &  TheC- 
dori  ab  Ackersdijck,  |  Anno  CD  id  c  l  vi. 

4*^,  old  calf,  engraved  title,  pp.  (52),  490,  536, 
(SO),  28. 

^*^  Herbert  would  have  his  country  parson  "  be 
all  to  his  parish;  and  not  only  a  pastor,  but  a  lawyer 
also,  and  a  physician."  He  suggests  Fernelius  as 
"the  physic  author,  for  he  writes  briefly,  neatly,  and 
judiciously." 

The  first  edition  of  this  work  was  published  at 
Paris  in  1554. 

17.  Canterburies  |  Dreame  :  |  In  Which  | 
The  Apparition  of  Cardinall  Wolsey  did  |  pre- 
sent himselfe  unto  him  on  the  fourteenth  |  of 
May  last  past :  |  It  being  |  The  third  night 
after  my  Lord  of  Strafford  had  |  taken  his 
fare-well  to  the  World.  |  Picture  of  Wolsey 
appearing  to  Laud.  Printed  in  the  yeare 
1641. 

Sm.  4°,  half  calf,  4  leaves. 

J'^  .According  to  Walton,  it  was  .-\rchbishop  Laud 
who  persuaded  Herbert  to  take  orders  as  a  priest. 

18.  A  i  Sermon  |  Preached  before  |  His 
Majesty  I  at  Whitehall,  March  12,  i664.  |By 
the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  Cod,  |  B.  Lord 
Bishop  of  Lincoln.  |  Published  by  His  Majes- 
ties special  Command.  |  London,  Printed  for 
Timothy  Garthwait,  1665. 

Sm.  4°,  vellum,  pp.  (2),  42. 

i^ t.  By  Bishop  Laney,  who  at  first  refused  license  to 
The  Temple  (1633),  but  afterward  granted  it. 

19.  The  I  Saints  Everlasting  Rest :  |  .  .  . 
by  Richard  Baxter.  .  .  .  London,  .   .  .1650. 

Sm.  4°,  calf,  pp.  (32),  856. 

»*^  This  first  edition  of  Baxter's  Saints  Rest  devotes 
pp.  853-6  to  Home,  "  .\  Poem  of  Master  J.  Herberts 
in  his  Temple,"  the  earliest  considerable  quotation 
from  Herbert  which  I  have  been  able  to  find. 

20.  Poemata  |  Varii  |  .Argumenti,  |  Partim  | 
L  Georgio  Herberto|  latin^  (utcumque)  red- 
dita,  I  Partim  conscripta,  |  A  I  Wilh.  Dilling- 
ham, S.T.D.  I  Cantabrigiensi.  |  Adscitis  etiam 
aliis  aliorum.  '  l.ectorem  delectnndo,  paritdr- 


que  monendo,  Hor.  |  Londini,  |  Typis  E. 
Flesher.  Prostant  apud  R.  Royston  |  Biblio- 
polam  Regium,  mdclxxviii. 

Sm.  8'^,  old  calf.  Collation :  Title,  A  i ;  versn 
blank;  Ad  Lectorem,  A 2-3;  Syllabus  Poematuni. 
A3  verso-4;  emblematic  engraving  of  three  palm 
trees  wilh  the  motto  "  Depressa  resurgo,"  A4  verso; 
text,  B1-Q7,  pp.  1-238. 

»*^  The  first  Part  of  this  book  is  made  up  of  Latin 
translations,  or  rather  imitations,  of  Herbert's  Church 
Porch,  Sacrifice,  Charms  and  Knots,  and  Man's  Med- 
ley, together  with  six  other  Latin  poems  by  Dillingham 
himself.  In  a  second  Part  are  gathered  twenty  Latin 
poems  by  different  authors  —  Erasmus,  More,  Bera, 
Buchanan,  Grotius,  Fletcher,  and  others. 

2 1 .  Poems  I  Upon  |  Several  Occasions.  |  By 
Daniel  Baker,  M.A.  |  Sometimes  of  Gonvil 
and  Caius  Coll.  |  in  Cambridge.  |  Virgil.  F^clog. 
9.  I  Me  quoque  dicunt  |  \'atem  Pastores ;  sed 
non  ego  credulus  illis.  |  London,  |  Printed  for 
J.  Jones  at  the  Dolphin  and  Crown  |  in  S. 
Paul's  Church-yard.     1697. 

8",  half  morocco,  pp.  (6),  160. 

^*^,  On  pp.  83-89  occurs  a  Pindarique  Ode  "On 
Mr.  George  Herbert's  Sacred  Poems,  called.  The 
Temple." 

22.  A  I  Letter  |  To  B.  O.  |  The  Publisher  of 
Mr.  Herbert's  |  Country  Parson.  |  From  T.  B. 
I  London,  |  Printed  by  E.  Tyler  and  R.  Holt, 
for  Nathaniel  |  Brooke,  at  •  the  Sign  of  the 
Angel  in  Corn- 1  hil,  near  the  Royal  Exchange. 
1672. 

Sm.  8°,  half  calf,  5  leaves. 

^*,  This  B.  O.  is  Barnabas  Oley,  the  first  biog- 
rapher of  Herbert.  The  piece  has  its  own  title-page 
as  given  above,  but  forms  pages  19—28  of  a  volume  of 
letters  by  T.  B. 

23.  Old  Herbert  Papers  at  Powis  Castle 
and  in  the  British  Museum.  Privately 
Printed.  London.  1886.  (Collections  his- 
torical &  archaeological  relating  to  Mont- 
gomeryshire and  its  borders,  xx.) 

8°,  cloth,  pp.  xviii,  282. 

^^*^f  Part  I  consists  of  miscellaneous  papers  dating 
from  1586  to  1735.  Part  II  is  the  correspondence  of 
Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury  from  1614  to  1639.  Part 
HI  contains  his  despatches  as  ambassador  during  1619 
and  1620. 

24.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Pictures  at  Wes- 
ton, belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Bradford. 
[Privately  Printed.]      1895. 

^*^  Contains  a  photograph  of  a  portrait  of  Herbert's 
mother  by  Zucchero. 

25.  The  I  Book  Of  |  Common  |  Prayer,  | 
.  .  .  Printed  by  Thomas  and  John  Buck 
I  .  .  .  Cambridge.  |  Anno  Dom.  MDCXXX. 

4'^,  original  calf,  not  paged. 


A    UKRHKRl     lillir.IOGKAI'in 


l<4 


^♦^  The  edition  of  the  Prayer  Book  printer!  in  the 
year  when  Herhcrt  took  orders. 

26.  [The  Herbert  monument  and  ( astle 
at  Montgomery.] 

^*^  A  small  collection  of  photographs  i)(  Moni- 
gomery  Castle,  the  tomli  in  the  Church,  heads  of  Sir 
Richard  and  Lady  Herbert  fin  the  tomb,  and  other 
objects  of  interest  in  and  about  Montgomer)'. 


IX 

Desiderata 

I.    Le  Cento  &  Dieci   Divine  Considera 
tioni  de  Juan  de  Valdes.     Basel.     1550. 

i^*»  For  Ferrar's  translation  of  this  work  Herl>ert 
wr.ite  a  series  of  notes.     See  III,  14. 


2.  Dc  \'eritaJc.  Ii\  Kdward  HrrlMri  I  orfl 
( 'hr'rl)ur\ .      I'ari>.      i(>2  \. 

^*«  The  lir<>t  edition  printed  m  l^ind'in  >iandft  in 
his  oill'-cMMn  as  \'I,  1.  !  hal  printed  at  I'ark  ••»'ii 
vf.-irs  earlier  i-.  Iarkin){. 

3.  A  Translation  oi  Certain  I'salms.  \U 
Lord  Haion.      1625. 

,*,  Tluse  I'saliii"-  wf-rr  dedicated  ir.  (;ror(>r  ll>-r 
iKirt.      See  IH,  4. 

4.  I'he  Synagogue.  In  Imitation  of  Mr. 
(ieorge  Herbert.  [Hv  ('hristopher  Harvey.] 
London.      1640. 

»*,The  fir^t  edition.  Ihis  collection  has  all  <»ih« 
editions  of  'fhe  Synagrjgue. 


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